num_pages: 169
description: Eugenio Montale's second book of poetry was first published in 1939. This book is his most experimental work, but a work no less tradition-saturated than Eliot's. As poet, private individual, and ""good European"," Montale's way of dealing with his difficulties was to seize the occasions offered him by writing poetry in which the lover's passions for his beloved country would convey the truth of both his public and his private situations.
language: English
title: The Occasions
titlecomplete: The Occasions
genres: Classics, Nobel Prize, Italy, Italian Literature, Poetry
ratings_count: 197
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company