Spesso il male di vivere ho incontratoEugenio Montale Spesso il male di vivere ho incontrato: era il rivo strozzato che gorgoglia, era l’incartocciarsi della foglia riarsa, era il cavallo stramazzato. Bene non seppi, fuori del prodigio che schiude la divina Indifferenza: era la statua nella sonnolenza del meriggio, e la nuvola, e il falco alto…Read more Eugenio Montale: Spesso il male di vivere ho incontrato/Often the burden of life I have met
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Experiments in translation: Hardy, Montale & me
Experiments in translation: Montale translates Hardy, and I translate Montale's translation of Hardy. I love Montale as a poet; I think I love him a little less as a translator (but isn't that, as Levi* states, a common occurence?). In this section called experiments in translation, I will try to translate Montale’s translation of Hardy’s…Read more Experiments in translation: Hardy, Montale & me
Eugenio Montale: Ho sceso dandoti il braccio…/I descended, with you on my arm
This poem is from Eugenio Montale's last collection Satura, which he finished in 1971; it contains poems written from 1962 to 1970.It is dedicated to the poet's wife and lifelong partner, Drusilla Tanzi, (1886-1963), and was written shortly after her death. The poet called her "Mosca" (fly) because she was terribly shortsighted and needed very…Read more Eugenio Montale: Ho sceso dandoti il braccio…/I descended, with you on my arm
Montale and Yeats: Poets translating Poets
When you are old (1892) William Butler Yeats When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved…Read more Montale and Yeats: Poets translating Poets
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