Eugenio Montale
Italian poet who won the Nobel Prize in 1975 and whose Ossi di Seppia and Le Occasioni are the major works of Italian modernism. His negative, antimythological poetics defined a generation.
Works
- Ossi di SeppiaModernist poems evoking coastal landscapes and human isolation
- Le OccasioniPoems of chance encounters and moments of existential meaning
- La Bufera e AltroWartime poems of violence, loss, and emotional devastation
- SaturaLater poems of skepticism, age, and prosaic daily life
- Diario del '71 e del '72Diary poems documenting specific years of observation and thought