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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
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