A Companion to Pablo Neruda: Evaluating Neruda's Poetry

by Jason Wilson

Book Overview

The making of a great Chilean poet.

Pablo Neruda was without doubt one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century but his work is extremely uneven. There is a view that there are two Nerudas, an early Romantic visionary and a later Marxist populist, who denied his earlier poetic self. By focussing on the poet's apprenticeship, and by looking closely at how Neruda created his poetic persona within his poems, this Companion tries to establish...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1855661675
• ISBN13: 9781855661677
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Tamesis Books
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"