Volume 7, Number 6 · October 20, 1966
A Master
By D.S. Carne-Ross
Eugenio Montale: Selected Poems
Introduction by Glauco Cambon
New Directions, 161 pp., $1.95
Montale made his bow before the English-speaking public in June, 1928, when his first important poem. 'Arsenio,' appeared in The Criterion in a strange translation by Mario Praz. Now, nearly forty years later, New Directions brings out a pioneer selection designed to introduce him, once again, to the English-speaking public. What happened? Why, outside Italy, is Montale not yet recognized for what he is, a twentieth-century master?
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