Name: children of the mire,modern poetry from romanticism to the avant-garde
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Author: Paz, Octavio
ISBN: 9780674116290

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Octavio Paz

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Year

1991

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.0 x 14.0 x 1.6 cm

Weight

0.26 kg.

ISBN

0674116291

ISBN13

9780674116290

Synopsis "children of the mire,modern poetry from romanticism to the avant-garde"

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-à-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.

Octavio Paz

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Octavio Irineo Paz Lozano (Ciudad de México, 31 de marzo de 1914-ibidem, 19 de abril de 1998), registrado al nacer como Octavio Irineo Paz Lozano, fue un poeta, ensayista y diplomático mexicano. Obtuvo el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1990 y el Premio Cervantes en 1981. Se le considera uno de los más influyentes autores del siglo XX y uno de los más grandes poetas de todos los tiempos.

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