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On Poets and Others

Octavio Paz

Translated by Michael Schmidt

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Hardback
ISBN: 978 0 856353 03 1
Categories: Latin American
Imprint: Lives and Letters
Published: January 1991
216 x 135 mm
220 pages
Publisher: Carcanet Press
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  • Octavio Paz
    When Octavio Paz (1914-1998) died, Mexico lost a tribe of writers. He was many poets, fromthe surrealist disciple of André Breton to the admiring imitator of Alexander Pope;now a radical experimentalist, now an autobiographer and confessional writer. A socialcritic, his work went through several phases of integrity. Unlike Orwell, he had ... read more
    Michael Schmidt
    Michael Schmidt OBE FRSL is Writer in Residence at St John's College, Cambridge. He is a founder and the Editorial and Managing Director of Carcanet Press and founder and general Editor of PN Review . He has published several collections of poems, two novels, a number of anthologies and volumes of ... read more
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