The Siren and the Seashell - And Other Essays on Poets and Poetry

A collection of a major Mexican writer's essays, focusing on individual poets and on poetry in general.

List of contents

• Editor’s Note
• I. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Rubén Darío, José Juan Tablada, Ramón López Velarde, Alfonso Reyes
  • Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
  • The Siren and the Seashell
  • José Juan Tablada
  • The Road of Passion
  • The Rider of the Air
• II. Robert Frost, E. E. Cummings, Saint-John Perse, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillén
  • Visit to a Poet
  • E. E. Cummings
  • A Modern Hymn
  • Antonio Machado
  • Jorge Guillen
• III. Poetry of Solitude and Poetry of Communion and A Literature of Foundations
  • Poetry of Solitude and Poetry of Communion
  • A Literature of Foundations
• Index




About the author










Octavio Paz (1914–1998) was a Mexican poet who won the 1990 Nobel Prize in literature.



Summary

A collection of a major Mexican writer's essays, focusing on individual poets and on poetry in general.

Product details

• Authors: Octavio Paz
• Assisted by: Barry Moser (Illustration), Lysander Kemp (Translation), Margaret Sayers Peden (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.1976
• EAN: 9780292776524
• ISBN: 978-0-292-77652-4
• No. of pages: 196
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Texas Pan American Series; Classicos/Clasicos; Classicos/Clasicos; Texas Pan American Series; Texas Pan American
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies