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XXVI; 269 S.; 24 cm. Originalleinen mit illustr. Schutzumschlag.

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Gutes Ex.; Umschlag etwas berieben; innen wenige Bleistift-Anstreichungen. - Englisch und Italienisch. - Eugenio Montale (* 12. Oktober 1896 in Genua; ? 12. September 1981 in Mailand) war ein italienischer Schriftsteller. 1975 erhielt er den Nobelpreis für Literatur. ... 1977 wurde Montale als Ehrenmitglied in die American Academy of Arts and Letters gewählt. Montale war Ehrendoktor der Universität La Sapienza Rom, der Universität Mailand und der Universität Cambridge. ... (wiki) // Eugenio Montale's epoch-making first book, Cuttlefish Bones, has been hailed as one of the truly important works of poetry in the twentieth century. The publication of Cuttlefish Bones, along with The Occasions and The Storm and Other Things, completes the trio of books that won Montale (1896-1981) the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975 and established him as the greatest Italian poet since Leopardi. William Arrowsmith, who received the International Montale Prize for all his Montale translations, and won the Landon Translation Prize from the Academy of American Poets, has translated all three volumes. ... (Verlagstext) / INHALT : TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE ---- IN LIMINE ---- Rejoice when the breeze ---- MOVEMENTS ---- The Lemon Trees ---- English Horn ---- Falsetto ---- Minstrels ---- POEMS FOR CAMILLO SBARBARO ---- Cafe at Rapallo ---- Epigram ---- Almost a Fantasia ---- SARCOPHAGI ---- Where girls with wavy hair pass by ---- Walk more warily now ---- The fire crackling ---- But where is the lover's tomb ---- OTHER VERSES ---- Wind and Banners ---- Shoot stretching from the wall ---- Don't ask me for words ---- To laze at noon ---- Don't take shelter in the shade ---- I think again of your smile ---- What I ask, my life ---- Bring me the sunflower ---- I have often met ---- What you knew of me ---- There Triton surges ---- I know that moment ---- Splendor of noon outspread ---- Happiness won ---- Again the canebrake ---- Maybe one morning ---- Valmorbia ---- The children's farandole ---- Faint wind-borne sistrum ---- The windlass creaks ---- Haul your paper boats ---- Hoopoe, merry bird ---- Above the graffiti-covered wall ---- Suddenly, at times ---- What tomorrow will bring ---- I would have liked to feel rough ---- If only I could force ---- Squander, if you want ---- ISBN 0393028038