Octavio Paz and T. S. Eliot

Octavio Paz and T. S. Eliot
Author: Tom Boll
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2017-12-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351193937

"When the sixteen-year-old Octavio Paz (1914-1998) discovered The Waste Land in Spanish translation, it 'opened the doors of modern poetry'. The influence of T S Eliot would accompany Paz throughout his career, defining many of his key poems and pronouncements. Yet Paz's attitude towards his precursor was ambivalent. Boll's study is the first to trace the history of Paz's engagement with Eliot in Latin American and Spanish periodicals of the 1930s and 40s. It reveals the fault lines that run through the work of the dominant figure in recent Mexican letters. By positioning Eliot in a Latin American context, it also offers new perspectives on one of the capital figures of Anglo-American modernism."

A Draft of Shadows, and Other Poems

A Draft of Shadows, and Other Poems
Author: Octavio Paz
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1979
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780811207386

A collection of poems by Mexican poet and essayist Octavio Paz, presented in Spanish and in English.

A Tale of Two Gardens

A Tale of Two Gardens
Author: Octavio Paz
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1997
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780811213493

Octavio Paz, 1990 Nobel Prize winner, declares that his many nonfiction books on the subject of India are only footnotes to his India poems. Those collected here cover more than 40 years of Paz's many and various commitments to Indiaas Mexican ambassador, student of Indian philosophy, and, above all, poet. "Paz's poetry is a seismograph of our century's turbulence, a crossroads where East meets West".PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.

Aguila O Sol?

Aguila O Sol?
Author: Octavio Paz
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1976
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780811206235

A bilingual edition of the short prose poetry written by Mexico's most distinguished living poet in 1949-50.

Children of the Mire

Children of the Mire
Author: Octavio Paz
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1991
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780674116290

Octavio Paz launches a far-ranging excursion into the "incestuous and tempestuous" relations between modern poetry and the modern epoch. From the perspective of a Spanish-American and a poet, he explores the opposite meanings that the word "modern" has held for poets and philosophers, artists, and scientists. Tracing the beginnings of the modern poetry movement to the pre-Romantics, Paz outlines its course as a contradictory dialogue between the poetry of the Romance and Germanic languages. He discusses at length the unique character of Anglo-American "modernism" within the avant-garde movement, and especially vis- -vis French and Spanish-American poetry. Finally he offers a critique of our era's attitude toward the concept of time, affirming that we are at the "twilight of the idea of the future." He proposes that we are living at the end of the avant-garde, the end of that vision of the world and of art born with the first Romantics.

A Tree Within

A Tree Within
Author: Octavio Paz
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1988
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780811210713

A Tree Within (Arbol Adentro), the first collection of new poems by the great Mexican author Octavio Paz since his Return (Vuelta) of 1975, was originally published as the final section of The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987. Among these later poems is a series of works dedicated to such artists as Miró, Balthus, Duchamp, Rauschenberg, Tapies, Alechinsky, Monet, and Matta, as well as a number of epigrammatic and Chinese-like lyrics. Two remarkable long poems --"I Speak of the City," a Whitmanesque apocalyptic evocation of the contemporary urban nightmare, and "Letter of Testimony," a meditation on love and death--are emblematic of the mature poet in a prophetic voice.

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei
Author: Eliot Weinberger
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780811226202

A new expanded edition of the classic study of translation, finally back in print

Nostalgia for Death

Nostalgia for Death
Author: Xavier Villaurrutia
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1993
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Poetry by Xavier Villaurrutia, one of the few openly homo-sexual Latin American writers of his time, presented here with a book-length critical study by Nobel Laureate, Octavio Paz. --Copper Canyon Press. The latest of Eliot Weinberger's brilliant translations of Latin American poets brings to English the major volume of an impeccable Mexican modernist. --Booklist.

Figures and Figurations

Figures and Figurations
Author: Octavio Paz
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2008
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780811217590

A beautiful gift edition of Figures & Figurations: the collaboration between the Nobel Prize laureate Octavio Paz and his wife of thirty years, the artist Marie José Paz.