A poet of multitudes.(Book review)(The Poetry of Pablo Neruda)(Book Review)

From: The Nation | Date: December 22, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

The Poetry of Pablo Neruda. Edited and with an Introduction by Ilan Stavans. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 996 pp. $40.

Pablo Neruda is often compared to Walt Whitman. In fact, the Chilean poet and Nobel Prize winner outdid Whitman in some respects. His poems have been memorized and recited by ordinary people across his vast continent. He is perhaps the most widely translated poet in the world. Even in English, his poems have been translated by numerous hands in scattered editions. The major accomplishment of this new collection, The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, is that it brings ...

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