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A strong, idiomatic new translation of Italy's greatest modern poet. Eugenio Montale is universally recognized as having brought the great Italian lyric tradition that begins with Dante into the twentieth century with unrivaled power and brilliance. Montale is a love poet whose deeply beautiful, individual work confronts the dilemmas of modern history, philosophy, and faith with courage and subtlety; he has been widely translated into English and his work has influenced two generations of American and British poets. Jonathan Galassi's versions of Montale's major works--Ossi di seppia, Le occasioni, and La bufera e altro--are the clearest and most convincing yet, and his extensive notes discuss in depth the sources and difficulties of this dense, allusive poetry. This book offers English-language readers uniquely informed and readable access to the work of one of the greatest of all modern poets. Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1975. Jonathan Galassi has also translated Montale's The Second Life of Art: Selected Essays and Otherwise: Last and First Poems.

"[Galassi's edition consists of] fluent, superbly rigorous, ever-intelligent, often resourceful translations (especially noticeable when he is confronted with Montale's unusual enjambments or with Italian syntactical acrobatics difficult to mirror in smooth English.)"

John Taylor, Poetry, March 2000

"Any major effort such as this to bring Montale to a wider readership can only be commended....this COLLECTED POEMS, taken as a whole, will be a valuable guide to readers who have some Italian and wish to know more about subtle poet of personal mythologies and ironic vision."

N. S. Thompson, Times Literary Supplement, 08/20/1999

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