Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair - Hardcover

Neruda, Pablo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9394924175 ISBN 13: 9789394924178

Publisher: Sanage Publishing House LLP, 2022

Synopsis

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Spanish: Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada) is a collection of romantic poems by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, first published in 1924. This work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. It remains one of the most celebrated and admired books of erotic poetry published in the last hundred years, with over a million copies sold worldwide. Neruda was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1971.

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About the Author

Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He chose his pen name after Czech poet Jan Neruda. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old, and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, overtly political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924). Pablo Neruda is often considered the national poet of Chile, and his works have been popular and influential worldwide. The Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez once called him "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sanage Publishing House LLP
• Publication date: 2022
• ISBN 10: 9394924175
• ISBN 13: 9789394924178
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 48