Volume 24, Number 10 · June 9, 1977
The Art of Montale
By Joseph Brodsky
New Poems
by Eugenio Montale, translated and introduced by G. Singh
New Directions, 124 pp., $2.95 (paper)
Poet in Our Time
by Eugenio Montale, translated by Alastair Hamilton
Urizen Books, 88 pp., $2.95 (paper)
Unlike life, a work of art never gets taken for granted: it is always viewed against its precursors and predecessors. The ghosts of the great are especially visible in poetry, since their words are less mutable than the concepts they represent.
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