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Author | Pablo Neruda |
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Translator | Jack Schmitt 50th Anniversary Ed. |
Language | Spanish |
Series | Latin American Literature and culture |
Genre | Poetry |
Publisher | University of California Press |
Publication date | 1950 |
Publication place | First edition: Mexico English Translation U.S. |
Published in English | 1991, 1993, 2000 |
Media type | Print Hardback and Paperback |
Pages | 407p |
ISBN | 0-520-22709-3 |
OCLC | 45095554 |
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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