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Octavio Paz launches a far-ranging excursion into the "incestuous
and tempestuous" relations between modern poetry and the modern
epoch. From the perspective of a Spanish-American and a poet, he
explores the opposite meanings that the word "modern" has held for
poets and philosophers, artists, and scientists. Tracing the
beginnings of the modern poetry movement to the pre-Romantics, Paz
outlines its course as a contradictory dialogue between the poetry
of the Romance and Germanic languages. He discusses at length the
unique character of Anglo-American "modernism" within the
avant-garde movement, and especially vis-a-vis French and
Spanish-American poetry. Finally he offers a critique of our era's
attitude toward the concept of time, affirming that we are at the
"twilight of the idea of the future." He proposes that we are
living at the end of the avant-garde, the end of that vision of the
world and of art born with the first Romantics.
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