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    A Companion to Pablo Neruda: Evaluating Neruda's Poetry

    By Jason Wilson

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    Pablo Neruda was without doubt one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century but his work is extremely uneven. There is a 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, 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. Neruda's debt to reading and books is studied in depth and the change in poetics re-examined by concentrating on the early work up to Residencia en la tierra I and II and why he wanted to become a poet. Debate about quality and representativity is grounded 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 his poems, which remainhis true biography.

    Jason Wilson is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies, University College London.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTamesis Books
    Release dateJun 19, 2008
    ISBN9781782044147
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    A Companion to Pablo Neruda: Evaluating Neruda's Poetry
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    Jason Wilson

    Jason Wilson is the director of the Cave of Adullam Transformational Training Academy and the author of Cry Like a Man and Battle Cry. He received the President's Volunteer Service Award from President Obama and acclaimed actor Laurence Fishburne executive produced an award-winning ESPN Films documentary about Jason's transformative work with boys, titled The Cave of Adullam. Jason has over twenty-seven years of martial arts experience and more than seventeen years dedicated to the development of African American males. He is a man of the Most High, a faithful husband for over twenty-five years, and a devoted father of two beautiful children.

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