Pablo Neruda
Chile's Nobel Prize-winning poet, whose Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair made him the most widely read poet of the Spanish language. His later work expanded to political epic and elemental celebration of the natural world.
Works
- Twenty Love Poems and a Song of DespairEarly love poems marked by passionate lyricism and youthful sensuality
- Canto GeneralEpic poem celebrating Latin American geography, history, and revolutionary spirit
- Elemental OdesCelebrations of ordinary objects and simple human pleasures through ode form
- Residence on EarthSurrealist-influenced poems exploring love, solitude, and cosmic mystery
- The Captain's VersesLove poems written during secret affair marked by passion and concealment
- Twenty Love PoemsEarly romantic poetry exploring erotic desire and emotional longing
- Odes to Common ThingsOdes celebrating the beauty and significance of commonplace objects