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Children of the Mire: Modern Poetry from Romanticism to the Avant-Garde, New and Enlarged Edition
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“An instant classic.”—Calvin Bedient, New Republic
Mexico’s greatest modern poet reflects upon the twilight of modernity.
If Octavio Paz was “one of the greatest poets that the Spanish-language world has ever produced,” as Mario Vargas Llosa once said, he was also an astoundingly erudite critic. Here, in his 1971–1972 Norton Lectures, the Nobel laureate offers a potent and prescient diagnosis of the condition of poetry in the wake of literary modernism.
Poetry’s relationship with modernity, Pa...
Mexico’s greatest modern poet reflects upon the twilight of modernity.
If Octavio Paz was “one of the greatest poets that the Spanish-language world has ever produced,” as Mario Vargas Llosa once said, he was also an astoundingly erudite critic. Here, in his 1971–1972 Norton Lectures, the Nobel laureate offers a potent and prescient diagnosis of the condition of poetry in the wake of literary modernism.
Poetry’s relationship with modernity, Pa...
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