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Synopsis
A beautiful hardcover Pocket Poets selection of the works of Nobel Prize-winning Italian poet Eugenio Montale, one of the giants of twentieth-century poetry. Italy's greatest modern poet, Eugenio Montale, brought the Italian lyric tradition that began 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 and his work influenced two generations of American and British poets. Jonathan Galassi's translations are the clearest and most convincing yet, offering English-language readers uniquely readable access to the work of one of the greatest of all modern poets.