Poetry Criticism | Paz, Octavio - John Zubizarreta (essay date summer 1995)

John Zubizarreta (essay date summer 1995)

SOURCE: Zubizarreta, John. “Octavio Paz and Robert Frost: El polvo y la nieve que se deshacen entre las manos.” Comparative Literature 47, no. 3 (summer 1995): 235-50.

[In the following essay, Zubizarreta explores literary connections between Paz and Robert Frost.]

While scholars of Octavio Paz may be familiar with his 1945 interview of the American poet Robert Frost, few readers of Frost are aware of the literary connections between the two great writers. The last twenty volumes of the annual MLA bibliography, for example, list no titles indicating a comparative focus on both poets, and Frank and Melissa C. Lentricchia's compilation of 1976 is the only substantial bibliography that includes the interview as a source. None of the available Frost biographies—not even Robert Frost: The Later Years, 1938-1963 (1976), the third volume of Lawrence Thompson's meticulous and slanted account...

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