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“... pessimist who makes you feel optimistic, even when he can’t do the same for himself. Professor Glauco Cambon says that he showed the manuscript of his book to Montale before the poet died, and that the reaction was favourable. Montale was famously polite. Eugenio Montale’s Poetry is both admiring and competent, but the professor’s abstract English ...”

“... who claim him as a socialist strain the truth about him.’ But what should we claim Shelley as? Glauco Cambon is a professional critic all right, and he has a story to tell which bears close comparison with those of Byron and Shelley. Ugo Foscolo was the leading Italian poet of the era following the French Revolution, which meant that he too ...”