Paz, Octavio - Dean Rader (essay date fall 1997)
Dean Rader (essay date fall 1997)
SOURCE: Rader, Dean. “Wallace Stevens, Octavio Paz, and the Poetry of Social Engagement.” Wallace Stevens Journal 21, no. 2 (fall 1997): 175-94.
[In the following essay, Rader offers a comparison of the works of Paz with those of American poet Wallace Stevens.]
La poesía, puente colgante entre historia y verdad [Poetry, suspension bridge between history and truth]
—Octavio Paz
Poetry as manifestation of the relationship that man creates between himself & reality
—Wallace Stevens
At first glance, it would appear that the Mexican Nobel Laureate and former ambassador Octavio Paz would have little in common with the Connecticut poet-lawyer Wallace Stevens. Paz, who has lived on three different...
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