Title: A companion to Pablo Neruda
Subtitle: evaluating Neruda's poetry
First published: 2008
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.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Neruda, pablo, 1904-1973
People: Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)
LC classification: PQ8097.N4 Z945 2008