Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair: Dual Language Edition (Penguin Classics)
 

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair: Dual Language Edition

by Pablo Neruda

The Nobel Prize?winning poet?s most popular work
When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. W. S. Merwin?s incomparable translation faces the original Spanish text. Now in a black-spine Classics edition, this book stands as an essential collection that continues to inspire lovers and... (read more)

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I own a copy that has the spanish on one side and english on the other, and I love reading the spanish side, and seeing how much better the poem sounds when in its original language. Even so, the english translation is still really great. His poetry is just risque' enough to warrant being read on a summer night, when the air is just slightly unbearable.

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