Volume 46, Number 2 · February 4, 1999
A Prisoner's Dream: Eugenio Montale in Translation
By Tim Parks
Collected Poems 1920-1954
by Eugenio Montale, translated and annotated by Jonathan Galassi
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 626 pp., $40.00
Concluding his poem 'To Silvia' in 1828, Giacomo Leopardi addresses the abstraction that had been his childhood companion: hope. The lines of that bitter statement were to become some of the most quoted in Italian poetry:
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