Eugenio Montale

Eugenio Montale

Birth : 1886-10-12, Genoa, Italy

Death : 1981-09-12

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Eugenio Montale (1896–1981) was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature. Montale wrote more than ten anthologies of short lyrics, a journal of poetry translation, plus several books of prose translations, two books of literary criticism, and one of fantasy prose. Alongside his imaginative work he was a constant contributor to Italy's most important newspaper, the Corriere della Sera, for which he wrote a huge number of articles on literature, music, and art. He also wrote a famed foreword to Dante's "Divine Comedy" and a celebratory essay entitled "Eliot and Ourselves" to mark the occasion of T.S. Eliot's sixtieth birthday.

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Eugenio Montale

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And You're So Special?
And You're So Special?
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An apartment dweller overhears a neighbor down the hall refer to him as a "poor miserable wretch". He complains to his wife about this, but she takes the neighbors side. While the man is willing to accept this assessment from his wife, he does not understand how it is that the neighbor could be in a position to make the same assessment. His wife explains.