Canto General

Canto General
First edition
AuthorPablo Neruda
TranslatorJack Schmitt
50th Anniversary Ed.
LanguageSpanish
SeriesLatin American Literature and culture
GenrePoetry
PublisherUniversity of California Press
Publication date
1950
Publication placeFirst edition: Mexico
English Translation U.S.
Published in English
1991, 1993, 2000
Media typePrint Hardback and Paperback
Pages407p
ISBN0-520-22709-3
OCLC45095554

Canto General is Pablo Neruda's tenth book of poems. It was first published in Mexico in 1950, by Talleres Gráficos de la Nación. Neruda began to compose it in 1938.

"Canto General" ("General Song") consists of 15 sections, 231 poems, and more than 15,000 lines. This work attempts to be a history or encyclopedia of the entire American Western Hemisphere, or New World, from a Hispanic American perspective.


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