Cuttlefish Bones (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Eugenio Montale
- First Published: 1925
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Nature, Authors or writers, Europe or Europeans, Poetry or poets, Metaphysics, Life, philosophy of, Italy or Italians, Life and death, Beaches or seashores
Critical Evaluation:
Along with Giuseppe Ungaretti and Salvatore Quasimodo, writers of the Hermetic school, Eugenio Montale is one of the most influential poets to shape Italian letters in the twentieth century. Although Montale also wrote literary criticism and about fifteen hundred newspaper and periodical articles, it was his first volume of poetry, Cuttlefish Bones, marked by its precision, concision, and concreteness, that gained him public recognition. In its prosody, the collection breaks from traditional Italian poetry in many ways. Most significantly, it marks a...
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