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A collection of a major Mexican writer's essays, focusing on individual poets and on poetry in general.

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Octavio Paz is a living incarnation of those tensions in modern poetry between human commitment and aesthetic concern, a dialectic that is fundamental to the art of all nations. And his poetics is important, for it places the poet at the heart of modern life, singing his solitary song in company with the massed voices of human solitude. In his view, the poet does not speak the language of society but turns away from it, gaining strength in exile. * Hudson Review *

Table of Contents
  • Editor’s Note
  • I. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Rubén Darío, José Juan Tablada, Ramón López Velarde, Alfonso Reyes
    • Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
    • The Siren and the Seashell
    • José Juan Tablada
    • The Road of Passion
    • The Rider of the Air
  • II. Robert Frost, E. E. Cummings, Saint-John Perse, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillén
    • Visit to a Poet
    • E. E. Cummings
    • A Modern Hymn
    • Antonio Machado
    • Jorge Guillen
  • III. Poetry of Solitude and Poetry of Communion and A Literature of Foundations
    • Poetry of Solitude and Poetry of Communion
    • A Literature of Foundations
  • Index

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      Publisher: MU - University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 7/1/1976 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780292776524, 978-0292776524
      ISBN10: 0292776527
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A collection of a major Mexican writer's essays, focusing on individual poets and on poetry in general.

      Trade Review
      Octavio Paz is a living incarnation of those tensions in modern poetry between human commitment and aesthetic concern, a dialectic that is fundamental to the art of all nations. And his poetics is important, for it places the poet at the heart of modern life, singing his solitary song in company with the massed voices of human solitude. In his view, the poet does not speak the language of society but turns away from it, gaining strength in exile. * Hudson Review *

      Table of Contents
      • Editor’s Note
      • I. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Rubén Darío, José Juan Tablada, Ramón López Velarde, Alfonso Reyes
        • Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
        • The Siren and the Seashell
        • José Juan Tablada
        • The Road of Passion
        • The Rider of the Air
      • II. Robert Frost, E. E. Cummings, Saint-John Perse, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillén
        • Visit to a Poet
        • E. E. Cummings
        • A Modern Hymn
        • Antonio Machado
        • Jorge Guillen
      • III. Poetry of Solitude and Poetry of Communion and A Literature of Foundations
        • Poetry of Solitude and Poetry of Communion
        • A Literature of Foundations
      • Index

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