Children of the Mire

Modern Poetry from Romanticism to the Avant-Garde, New and Enlarged Edition

By:

Octavio Paz

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Paperback / softback

Series:

The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures

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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-Ã-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.

Author Biography:

Octavio Paz was the author of more than forty volumes of poetry and prose.

Release date Australia

May 22nd, 1991

Author

Octavio Paz

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Contributor

Translated by Rachel Phillips

Edition

2nd Revised edition

Pages

192

Series

The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures

Dimensions

139x210x16

ISBN-13

9780674116290

Product ID

14265029

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