biography
pronunciation:
[montahlay]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1896–1981)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Genoa, NW Italy. He was the leading poet of the modern Italian ‘Hermetic’ school, and his primary concern was with language and meaning. His main theme was the ‘pain of living’ in a desolate universe where the only hope came from chance encounters with the everyday. His works include Ossi di seppia (1925, Cuttlefish Bones), Le occasioni (1939, The Occasions), La bufera e altro (1956, The Storm, and Other Poems), Satura (1962), and Xenia (1966). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975. |
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