The Other Voice - Essays on Modern Poetry

In seven elegant essays that range across centuries and literatures, Paz offers his thoughts on how modern poetry came to be, what makes it ?modern,? and what it may become. Translated by Helen Lane.

About the author

Octavio Paz was born in 1914 and died in 1998. The author of eighteen books, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.

Summary

In seven elegant essays that range across centuries and literatures, Paz offers his thoughts on how modern poetry came to be, what makes it “modern,” and what it may become. Translated by Helen Lane.

Product details

• Authors: Octavio Paz
• Assisted by: Helen Lane (Translation)
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.1992
• EAN: 9780156704557
• ISBN: 978-0-15-670455-7
• No. of pages: 180
• Weight: 4531 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; literary collection;essays, POETRY: Women Authors, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, POETRY: Anthologies (multiple authors), LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Letters, LITERARY CRITICISM: Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM: Jewish, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Diaries & Journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Medieval, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Subjects & Themes / General, literary collection;essays;essays;literary;essay;collection, literary collection;essays;1991;1992;1993