Neruda, Pablo (Vol. 2) - Neruda, Pablo 1904–1973
Neruda, Pablo 1904–1973
Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, best known for Residencia en la tierra. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 19-20.)
There are two objections to [the] political phase of [Neruda's] work. Granted the many errors of our own diplomacy, the first objection is that it is simply not poetry, but rhetoric and propaganda, which is why another Nobel-winning exile, Juan Ramón Jiménez, called Neruda "a great bad poet." The other objection is that the alternative Neruda offered humanity was Stalinism, Maoism, and the satellite regimes, all of which won his uncritical praise….
[One] must acknowledge the truly great qualities of Neruda's nonpolitical muse. His sincere poems on love, anguish, nature, everyday experience, hopes for man, and a vast repertory of themes growing out of both perception and meditation have by now garnered wider acclaim than those of Chile's other Nobel laureate, the late Gabriela...
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