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Pablo Neruda

1904–1973 · Chile · Contemporary (profiles)

Chile’s Pablo Neruda wrote passionate love poems, odes to everyday things like onions and socks, and the epic Canto General. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971.

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🔎 Where to read Pablo Neruda’s poems legally

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📚 Books

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Can I read Pablo Neruda’s poems on Pagine?

Pablo Neruda’s poems are still protected by copyright, so we don’t reproduce them. This page links to legal places to read them: the poet’s publishers, your local library, the Poetry Foundation and the Academy of American Poets, which share many poems with permission.

What are Pablo Neruda’s best-known books?

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924), Canto General (1950), Elemental Odes (1954).

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