A companion to Pablo Neruda
Subtitle: evaluating Neruda's poetry
By: Jason Wilson.
Series: Colección Támesis -- 259
Publisher: Tamesis
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK; Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781855661677
Subjects: Neruda, Pablo, -- 1904-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Other titles: Pablo Neruda; Evaluating Neruda's poetry
Description: "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 what should survive of his massive output. By seeing his early work as self exploration through metaphor and sound, as well as through varieties of love and direct experience, the Companion outlines a unity behind all the work, based on voice and a public self."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-248) and index.