On Poets and Others

By Octavio Paz

Book Overview

The Nobel Prize-winning poet and man of letters Octavio Paz was also a brilliant reader of other writers, and this book selects his best critical essays from over three decades. In the sixteen pieces collected here, Paz discusses a wide range of poets and writers, both American and international, from Robert Frost and Walt Whitman to William Carlos Williams; from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Luis Bu uel to Alexander Solzhenitsyn; and from Charles Baudelaire to Jean-Paul Sartre, Andr Breton, and Henri Michaux.

Paz writes, "I believe that a writer's attitude to language should be that of a lover: fidelity and, at the same time, a lack of respect for the beloved object. Veneration and transgression." When this original thinker meets these writers, each essay is an adventure of the mind.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628723742
• ISBN13: 9781628723748
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.2"