Montale: Poems - Eugenio Montale Following years of brutal tyranny

Following years of brutal tyranny and poverty

was "always trying to get to the bottom of the human imbroglio

Translator: Lisa C

radical public poems on history and politics

Pages: 1072

Montale: Poems - Eugenio Montale Following years of brutal tyrannyMontale's incandescently beautiful poetry is deeply rooted in the venerable lyric tradition that began with Dante, but he brilliantly reinvents that tradition for our time, probing the depths of love, death, faith and philosophy in the bracing light of modern history. Montale's poems teem with allusion and metaphor but at the same time are densely studded with concrete images that keep his complex musings firmly tethered to the world. Montale's