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T.S. Eliot and Eugenio Montale
Nov
STEFANO MARIA CASELLA
“Empty Silences”
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It might seem superfluous to repeat again Mario Praz’s formula in his earliest comparison between T.S.Eliot and Eugenio Montale: “Parallels in history, though apt to be misleading, offer a tempting playground for speculation” (244), as so much has been written about this topic since 1933: books, essays, not to mention dissertations (“let some thesis-writer have the satisfaction of discovering …” (109), the eighty years old Pound mused though in other circumstances — that is about his 1919 French tour together with T.S.Eliot. But it is the very word “speculation” which, once more, gives the clue and the idea, and again arouses the curiosity about another parallel and comparative reading, even though limited to what might be called a marginal gloss on a topic scarcely or not at all dealt with before. And the “speculation” (speculum) gives back more or less different images, and marks the similar traits of the reflected images of these two poems. RSA Journal 14/2003
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