Neruda Walcott & Atwood Poets of The Americas

"""I have often maintained that the best poet is he who prepares our daily bread: the nearest baker who does not imagine himself to be a god. He does his majestic and unpretentious work of kneading the dough. consigning it to the oven, baking it in golden colours and handing us our daily bread as a duty of fellowship."" [Pablo Neruda, Nobel Lecture, December 13, 1971] ""For every poet it is always morning in the world. History a forgotten, insomniac night; History and elemental awe are always our early beginning, because the fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world, in spite of History. [Dreak Walcott, Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1992] ""My own theory is that poetry is composed with the melancholy side of the brain, and that if you do nothing but, you may find yourself going slowly down a long tunnel with no exit. I have avoided this by being ambidextrous: I write novels too. But when I find myself writing poetry again, it always has the surprise of that first unexpected and anonymous gift."" [Margaret Atwood, Waterstone's Poetry Lecture, June 1995] This volume brings together the poems of Pablo Neruda, Derek Walcott and Margaret Atwood annotated extensively for students of English Literature. Essays by eminent critics have been chosen to provide biographical information and widen critical discourse. They discuss the major poetical works of the three poets, citing stylistic trends in their writings, the contemporary debates in which they have participated, and significant issues regarding post-colonialism. Dr. Ajanta Dutt teaches English at Jesus and Mary College, Delhi University. Her previous book Landscapes and Language, St. Martin's Press was co-edited with her colleagues at Rutgers University, USA where she taught in the ESL program until 1998."