Pablo Neruda (Identities and Issues in Literature)
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Pablo Neruda was one of the greatest poets of the Spanish American avant-garde, sharing its many poetic heights and political lows. His Stalinism in (bad) verse never completely drowned the powerful poet in him; particularly the erotic strand in his work proved to be quite resilient and accounted for his resurrections. Neruda’s type of poetic Marxism was typical of the Latin American artistic appropriation of leftist revolutionary ideologies in the twentieth century.
He began writing poetry when he was ten years old. In 1920, he adopted the name Pablo...
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