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"Eugenio Montale, who won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature, brought the tradition of Italian lyric poetry that begins with Dante into the twentieth century. Montale forged a myth out of his own story that resonates profoundly with contemporary man's anguished existential experience of love and solitude, and his beautiful, stirringly individual work deals courageously and subtly with the dilemmas of the modern era: its tormented history and politics,...

English renditions of selected poems from Montale's three most recent collections, including poems evoked by the memory and absence of his wife, poems centering in formal and linguistic invention, and poems of historical and social theme. - Google Books.