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  Eugenio Montale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eugenio Montale (October 12, 1896, Genoa – September 12, 1981, Milan) was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and traslator, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975.
The strong presence of Mediterranean landscape of Montale's native Liguria was a strong presence in his first poems: the geographical limits of Montale's inspiration were therefore the outer face of a sort of "personal reclusion" in face of the depressing events around him.
In 1929 Montale was asked as chairman of the Gabinetto Vissieux Library, from which he was expelled in 1938 by the Fascism.
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 AllRefer.com - Eugenio Montale (Italian Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Montale's pessimistic philosophy stressed that only the occasional moment of joy could give one a glimpse of salvation in the midst of one's hopeless existence on earth.
Montale speaks with a stoic voice, one resigned to accept the absurdities and illusions of life.
Montale was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1975.
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 Eugenio Montale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Eugenio Montale (October 12, 1896 - September 12, 1981) was an Italian (A native or inhabitant of Italy) poet (A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (additional info and facts about Nobel Prize for Literature) in 1975.
Montale was born in Genoa (A seaport in northwestern Italy; provincial capital of Liguria).
The Mediterranean landscape of Montale's native Liguria (Region of northwestern Italy on the Ligurian Sea) was a strong presence in his first poems.
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 Life and Times of Eugenio Montale and Poem Analysis
Eugenio Montale died in Milan in 1981 at the age of 85.
Montale’s answer to the question, “Is poetry still possible?”, is similar to the obscurity of his poetry, the complexity of the problem can only be answered through how one interprets what poetry should be.
Montale describes the short dream as one of quality because it conveys the only fact one can be sure is true: The world is a world of perspective and it is difficult, sometimes impossible, to determine what is truth and what is false.
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 Eugenio Montale - Biography
Eugenio Montale, born in 1896, is one of the few obvious "true masters" of the last fifty years of Italian literature.
In 1961, Montale was awarded an honorary degree at the University of Rome and shortly afterwards, at the universities of Milan, Cambridge, and Basel.
Montale's great poetry, in actual fact, is born out of the search for those presences that reveal and liberate the hidden world, such as spectres and amulets.
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Eugenio Montale is one of the greatest Italian twentieth century poets.
Montale preferred to be considered born in the furrow of a poetic trend which can be approximately defined metaphysical.
Eugenio Montale, Dialogo con Montale sulla poesia, in Giorgio Zampa (a cura di), op.
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 The Ensemble Sospeso - Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale (1896-1981), the Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1975.
Eugenio Montale was born in Genoa as the youngest of five children of Domenico Montale, who ran an import business, and Giuseppina (Ricci) Montale.
“Montale is an ardent defender of simplicity and clarity and an enemy of irrationalist methodologies.
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 Eugenio Montale
Montale spent his summers at the family villa in a small village nearby the Ligurian Riviera, and later images from its harsh landscape later found their way into his poetry.
Montale was always an opponent of fascism, but he showed understanding to Ezra Pound, in spite of Pound's sympathies for the Fascist regime.
Montale was married to Drusilla Tanzi; she had separated from her husband in the late 1930s, but Montale and Tanzi were not married until in 1958, after her husband died.
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 Montale, Eugenio
Montale's first book of poems, Ossi di seppia (1925; "Cuttlefish Bones"), expressed the bitter pessimism of the postwar period.
Montale's later works, beginning with La bufera e altro (1956; The Storm, and Other Poems), were written with increasing skill and a personal warmth that his earlier works had lacked.
Montale was considered in the 1930s and '40s to be a Hermetic poet.
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 Found in Translation
Montale sometimes rather vainly hinted at parallels between his own work and the ''Divine Comedy,'' claiming, for instance, that his three books were ''three canticles, three phases of a human life.'' But agnosticism finally triumphs: ''The Storm, Etc.'' ends with ''The Prisoner's Dream,'' whose last lines contain a beautifully unresolved, un-Dantesque admission of expectancy:
Montale's later life as a distinguished man of letters was in part a predictable trek through a desert of high-profile journalistic assignments, civic celebrations and award ceremonies.
Montale was also a traveler, especially in the postwar years, and his poetry's genius comes out equally strongly in his intensely realized portraits of the itinerant inhabitants of modernity.
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 Eugenio Montale Biography / Biography of Eugenio Montale Main Biography
The Italian poet and critic Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) was one of the major representatives of Italian hermetic poetry.
Eugenio Montale was born on Oct. 12, 1896, at Genoa, and his youth was spent between that city and a property his family had in southern Liguria.
Throughout this time Montale contributed regularly to literary journals, such as Solaria, and, being also a perceptive critic, he was the first to point out, in 1925, Italo Svevo's importance as a writer.
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 Encyclopedia: Eugenio Montale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Photograph of Eugenio Montale File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version.
October 12 is the 285th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (286th in leap years).
Eugenio Montale (1896 - 1981) was an Italian poet, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975.
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 TomFolio.com: by Eugenio Montale
Montale, Eugenio The Butterfly of Dinard (#7090) Publisher: Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1971.
Montale, Eugenio The Second Life of Art (#5444) Publisher: NY: The Ecco Press, 1982.
Lit Criticism And Theory Hardcover A selection of important essays spanning Montale's fifty years of activity as a literary, musical and cultural critic is a remarkable look at at the artistic life of our century through the eyes of its leading participants.
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 :: norton poets online :: Eugenio Montale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
:: Poet, prose writer, editor, and translator, Eugenio Montale was born in Genoa in 1896.
His original aspiration was to be an opera singer, and he served in the Italian Army in World War I; but he soon began a literary career.
Dismissed from his work in 1938 for refusing to join the Fascist party, Montale continued to write and translate and returned to public life in Milan after the war.
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 Montale, Eugenio on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Una profecía de Eugenio Montale.(comunicación)(TT: A prophesy by Eugenio Montale.)(TA: communication)(Artículo Breve)
Eugenio Montale's 'Diario postumo.' ('Diario postumo: 66 poesie e altre')(Italian Literature Today)
Milan: The italian nobel prize Eugenio MONTALE reading a poem.
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 The Austin Chronicle Books: Eugenio Montale's Collected Poems 1920-1954
Alongside Galassi's astute and sensitive translations, he has also included an insightful essay, "Reading Montale," a helpful chronology, and fascinating, voluminous notes that make it apparent that this masterly collection is a labor of love and dedicated scholarship.
Reading Montale is like reading the restless poetry of a whirling dervish (without the blissful tone) -- everything is in constant motion in his world, and yet there's a paradoxical stillness at the core.
The effect, for my part, after reading a succession of Montale's poems, is a faint feeling of vertigo, which is what you might expect from a vision that suggests life as if seen from a swift train.
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 Montale, Eugenio 1896 books, find the lowest prices
The Expression of the Inexpressible in Eugenio Montale's Poetry : Metaphor, Negation, and Silence
Montale Europeo : Ascendenze Culturali Nel Percorso Montaliano Da Accordi a Finisterre (1922-1943)
by Eugenio Montale, Domenico Astengo, Giampiero Costa, Angelo Barile
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 Montale, Eugenio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Along with Giuseppe Ungaretti and Salvatore Quasimodo, he was influenced by French Symbolists such as Stephane Mallarme, Arthur Rimbaud, and Paul Valery and sought to convey experiences through the emotional suggestiveness of words and a symbolism of purely subjective meaning.
Jared Becker, Eugenio Montale (1986), introduces Montales' life and works.
Critical studies include G. Singh, Eugenio Montale (1973); Rebecca J. West, Eugenio Montale: Poet on the Edge (1981); and Glauco Cambon, Eugenio Montale's Poetry: A Dream in Reason's Presence (1982).
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 Eugenio Montale: SELECTED POEMS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
By the time that Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) received the Nobel Prize in 1976, the world was beginning to acknowledge that he was among the greatest of the modernist poets, author of a poetic canon that spanned much of the twentieth century.
Profoundly rooted in the Italian landscape and culture and with an enormous sensitivity to his language and its heritage, Montale shaped poems throughout his life that were mysterious, resonant, and layered with meanings.
This volume, which draws on the entire corpus of Montale's work, brings together three of his most experienced and effective translators.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Eugenio Montale
MSN Encarta - Search Results - Eugenio Montale
Barba, Eugenio, born in 1936, Italian-born theater director and theorist, and founder of the International School for Theater Anthropology.
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 Eugenio Montale --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In the 1930s and 1940s the Italian poet, prose writer, editor, and translator Eugenio Montale was considered to be a leader of the literary movement known as Hermeticism.
Influenced by the French symbolist poets, he sought to convey experiences through the emotional suggestiveness of words and symbolism.
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 Eugenio Montale Event   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Florence, Mt. Amiata, Lucca's Baths, Modena, Ravenna, Capua, Vallarsa in the Trentino, Venice: vacation in Eugenio Montale's verses inspired by locations in his homeland: Italy--and sip outstanding wines from those regions as you listen.
Genoa-native Elsie Cardia, owner of The Beatrice Inn (285 W. 12th St.), reads in Italian; in her regional inflections, you can hear Montale's Genovese accent.
Winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature, Montale died in Milan in September 1981, one month shy of his 85th birthday.
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 The New York Review of Books: Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale was born in Genoa in 1896 and died in 1981.
August 15, 1985: A POEM BY EUGENIO MONTALE
Il Bulldog Di Legno: Intervista Di Giuliano Dego a Eugenio Montale (1985)
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 Eugenio Montale : Nobel Prize Winner in Literature - a star in the creative literary firmament! A great vista to ...
Eugenio Montale : Nobel Prize Winner in Literature - a star in the creative literary firmament!
Montale's Mestiere Vile : The Elective Translations from English of the 1930s and 1940s (Publications of the Foundation for Italian Studies, universit
Eugenio Montale: a critical study of his poetry, prose, and criticism
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 MSN Encarta - Eugenio Montale
Montale, Eugenio (1896-1981), Italian poet, critic, and Nobel laureate, born in Genoa.
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Collected Poems 1920-1954 by Eugenio Montale - Collected Poems 1920-1954 by Eugenio Montale, at amazon.com
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 Find in a Library: Eugenio Montale, immagini di una vita   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 MODERN CLASSICS POEMS - Eugenio Montale - Penguin Books
MODERN CLASSICS POEMS - Eugenio Montale - Penguin Books
Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) is acknowledged as one of the great poets of the twentieth century and received many honours, including the Nobel Prize in 1975.
This volume draws on Montale's four major collections, Cuttlefish Bones (Ossi di seppia), The Occasion (Le occasioni), The Storm and Other Things (La bufera e altro), Satura, and later work as well.
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