Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Spanish: Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada) is a poetry collection by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. Published in June 1924, the book launched Neruda to fame at the young age of 19 and is one of the most renowned literary works of the twentieth century in the Spanish language. It has been translated into many languages; in English, the translation was made by poet W. S. Merwin in 1969. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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What did Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair do for Pablo Neruda's reputation?
The collection established Neruda as a prominent poet and an interpreter of love and erotica.
The Nobel Prize organization says the collection established Neruda as a prominent poet and an interpreter of love and erotica. It came early in his career, before the diplomatic journeys in Asia that shaped his later volumes of poems called Residencia en la tierra (Residence on Earth), and before the Communist sympathies that show in his epic Canto General.
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair...is a poetry collection by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. Published in June 1924, the book launched Neruda to fame at the young age of 19.
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is a poetry collection by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Spanish: Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada) is a poetry collection by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Spanish: Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada) is a poetry collection by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. Published in June 1924, the book launched Neruda to fame at the young age of 19 and is one of the most renowned literary works of the 20th century in the Spanish language.
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair...is a poetry collection by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.
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poetry collection by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda
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