Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
The Nobel Prize–winning poet’s most popular work When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. W. S. Merwin’s incomparable translation faces the original Spanish text. Now in a black-spine Classics...
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The Nobel Prize–winning poet’s most popular work When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. W. S. Merwin’s incomparable translation faces the original Spanish text. Now in a black-spine Classics edition, this book stands as an essential collection that continues to inspire lovers and poets around the world.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143039969 (0143039962)
Publish date: December 26th 2006
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 70
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Love,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Romance,
20th Century,
Poetry,
Spanish Literature,
Latin American,
Latin American Literature,
Nobel Prize
Pablo Neruda es universal :) .Muy bonito. Tienen una musicalidad y un ritmo preciosos. Merece la pena leerlos en voz alta.Pero me pasa algo curioso; unos poemas me encantan y otros, en cambio, me aburren. Eso sí, los que me gustan los puedo leer una vez, y otra, y otra...************* Poema 15: Reci...
My favorite kind of bad poetry
Neruda's poetry is the very definition of Lingual Pheromone. Also, Every Day You Play. Oh, be still, my heart! :') *a tear drop rolls down her cheek*
Neruda's heart resonates with strange old rhythms as he liberates his imagination from traditional expressions of devotion and takes it to undiscovered dimensions in paying homage to the act called "love". It is not merely emotion that he speaks of but the act, an act which is divine and sublime in ...
I can't help but feel that maybe I read this at the wrong time in my life. Or maybe W. S. Merwin's translations were wrong for me. Or some other excuse. Because I've heard such brilliant things about this collection. That it's one of the best poetry collections of all time. That it's about love and ...
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