Of Haunting Absence, of Intense Presence: The Mysterious Metaphysical Love Poetry of Eugenio Montale

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OF HAUNTING ABSENCE, OF INTENSE PRESENCE: THE MYSTERIOUS METAPHYSICAL LOVE POETRY OF EUGENIO MONTALE

Collected Poems: 1920-1954, by Eugenio Montale. Tr. by Jonathan Galassi. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. $40-00.

Satura: 1962-1970, by Eugenio Montale. Tr. by William Arrowsmith. W. W. Norton. $29.95.

Eugenio Montale (1896-ig8i) composed poems as hermetic as any ever written in any language. For the 1975 Nobel prizewinner, however, this obscurity is by no means gratuitous. Montale's highly-conscious private symbolism is as autobiographically specific as it is strangely applicable to our own ...

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