The six overlapping studies that make up this book on the poetry of Eugenio Montale analyze a large number of individual poems and with Le occasioni 1939 as a point of reference show how they shape and are shaped by changes and continuities that extend from the earliest poems of Ossi di seppia 1925 to the notoriously difficult poems in his culminating achievement La bufera 1956 Originally published in 1983 The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print on demand technology to again make available previously out of print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905