Skip to content

Critical Provisions

scraps of literary criticism–from the classroom, works in progress, private musings, public soliloquies, barroom disputations, and more.

  • About The Blog
  • Notebook
  • 20th and 21st Centuries
  • 19th Century
  • 18th Century
  • 16th and 17th Centuries
  • Marcel Proust
  • Geoffrey Hill
  • Eugenio Montale
  • William Gaddis
  • W. Empson
  • Literature in Translation
  • philosophy
  • Reading Journal

Tag: Montale

172. (Eugenio Montale)

  The Poetry Foundation’s website has a brief essay on Montale, helpful mostly for its generous quotations from critics and … More

Italian Poetry, Modernism, Montale, Poetry, T.S. Eliot

95. (Elizabeth Bishop)

The poems are about the failure to communicate or translate an esoteric, charged experience of the commonplace. Where poets who … More

American poetry, Elizabeth Bishop, Hart Crane, Montale, Poetry, Stevens, symbolism, Yeats

93. (Elizabeth Bishop)

She shares with Eugenio Montale a novel sense of what epiphany a poem can or should seek or record. She only … More

American poetry, Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, epiphany, Marianne Moore, Montale, Poetry, Robert Lowell, Shelley, Yeats
Follow Critical Provisions on WordPress.com

Recent Posts

  • 358. (William Empson)
  • 357. (T.S. Eliot)
  • 356. (Charles Baudelaire)
  • 355. (Robert Lowell)
  • 354. (Søren Kierkegaard)
Blog at WordPress.com.
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
  • Follow Following
    • Critical Provisions
    • Join 699 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Critical Provisions
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar