![]() “It is almost inconceivable that two such gifted poets should find each other in such an unlikely spot. Among his teachers “was the poet Gabriela Mistral who would be a Nobel laureate years before Neruda,” reported Manuel Duran and Margery Safir in Earth Tones: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda. Neruda’s literary development received assistance from unexpected sources. He grew up in Temuco in the backwoods of southern Chile. John Leonard in the New York Times declared that Neruda “was, I think, one of the great ones, a Whitman of the South.” Among contemporary readers in the United States, he is largely remembered for his odes and love poems.īorn Ricardo Eliezer Neftali Reyes y Basoalto, Neruda adopted the pseudonym under which he would become famous while still in his early teens. Numerous critics have praised Neruda as the greatest poet writing in the Spanish language during his lifetime. “No writer of world renown is perhaps so little known to North Americans as Chilean poet Pablo Neruda,” observed New York Times Book Review critic Selden Rodman. Pablo Neruda is one of the most influential and widely read 20th-century poets of the Americas. ![]()
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