Poet's Choice From: The Washington Post | Date: March 14, 1999| Author: Robert Hass | Copyright 1999 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

In 1948, in the desolation following the war and the collapse of fascism, Eugenio Montale, then 52 years old, wrote what is perhaps the most famous and best-loved Italian poem of the 20th century. Montale has been for me one of those poets, like Boris Pasternak, whose greatness a reader of translations had to take on faith. I didn't feel that I got from the poems whatever it was that made his elusive and somewhat astringent spirit so central to modern European poetry.

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