The Captain's Verses
The Nobel Prize winner 's classic collection of love poems.Pablo Neruda, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, finished writing The Captain's Verses in 1952 while in exile on the island of Capri—the paradisal setting for the blockbuster film Il Postino (The Postman). Surrounded by sea,...
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The Nobel Prize winner 's classic collection of love poems.Pablo Neruda, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, finished writing The Captain's Verses in 1952 while in exile on the island of Capri—the paradisal setting for the blockbuster film Il Postino (The Postman). Surrounded by sea, sun, and Capri's natural splendors, Neruda addressed these poems to his lover Matilde Urrutia before they were married, but didn't publish them publicly until 1963. This complete, bilingual collection has become a classic for love-struck readers around the world—passionately sensuous, and exploding with all the erotic energy of a new love.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780811218214 (081121821X)
ASIN: 081121821X
Publish date: February 25th 2009
Publisher: New Directions
Pages no: 151
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Love,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
American,
Romance,
Poetry,
Spanish Literature,
Latin American,
International,
Latin American Literature
My idea of a perfect March evening is to sit in my castle with wine in my hand, a book of verses in the other and a slow burning dream of her memory in my eyes. This is what I am doing. Neruda is perhaps the greatest poet of this or any century.If You Forget Me... "Well, now,if little by little you ...
2.5 stars.Having read a collection of Neruda's odes in Norwegian, which I absolutely loved, I was so happy that I found a Kindle-version of this book tonight, when I had such a craving for some really good poetry. And then I was disappointed. And I'm disappointed that I was disapppointed! I chose Ne...
I can open the book to any page of Neruda's poetry and want to spend the rest of my day reading his poetry. It makes me want to learn Spanish, it makes me want to send postcards of poetry to everyone I love.
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