On Poets and Others
Paz, Octavio / Schmidt, Michael
The Nobel Prize-winning poet and man of letters Octavio Paz was also a brilliant reader of other writers, and this book selects his best critical essays from over three decades. In the sixteen pieces collected here, Paz discusses a wide range of poets and writers, both American and international, from Robert Frost and Walt Whitman to William Carlos Williams, from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Luis Buñuel to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and from Charles Baud...