A Companion to Pablo Neruda: Evaluating Neruda's Poetry

Pablo Neruda was without doubt one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century but his work is extremely uneven. There is a view that there are two Nerudas, an early Romantic visionary and a laterMarxist populist, who denied his earlier poetic self. By focussing on the poet's apprenticeship, and by looking closely at how Neruda created his poetic persona within his poems, this Companion triesto establish what should survive of his massive output. By seeing his early work as self exploration t…