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A Companion to Pablo Neruda - Evaluating Neruda's Poetry (Paperback)
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A Companion to Pablo Neruda - Evaluating Neruda's Poetry (Paperback)
Series: Monografias A
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The making of a great Chilean poet. Pablo Neruda was without doubt
one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. However, his
work is extremely uneven, and long. The companion examines the 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, his struggle to read and incorporate
French poetry and travel abroad 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. This companion studies Neruda's
debt to reading and books in depth and re-examines his change in
poetics by concentrating on the early work up to Residencia en la
tierra I and II and why he wanted to become a poet. Many critics
have argued that some kind of critical assessment must be made in
order for Neruda's later work to be read. This companion grounds
this debate about quality and representativity in his Romantic
thinking, sensibility and sincerity. Unlike a Borges or a Paz who
accompanied their creative work with analytical essays, Neruda
distilled all his experiences into hispoems, which remain his true
biography. Jason Wilson is Professor Emeritus at University College
London.
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