Cuttlefish Bones: 1920-1927

by Eugenio Montale

Book Overview

A collection of works that won the Nobel Prize and established Montale as the greatest Italian poet since Leopardi. The renowned classicist, translator, and critic William Arrowsmith translates all three volumes.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393028038
• ISBN13: 9780393028034
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Fine translation

If you can't read Montale's stunning poetry in Italian, this is the next best thing, and for those new to Montale's work the fairly extensive notes will be very helpful. I've not read every one of the translated poems, but the ones I have read retain the poet's voice.

Astonishing poetry

Montale is the great Italian poet of this century, and this is his best book. English Horn is of a stunning beauty. It ends, in Italian, with the verse "Scordato strumento, cuore!". The translation is beautiful: the poetry is, definitely, not lost!