Eugenio Montale

Ossi di Seppia

Modernist poems evoking coastal landscapes and human isolation

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Eugenio Montale
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.

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