Selected Poems

The poetry of Pablo Neruda is a direct and heartfelt communication of the poet's personal experience, political, romantic and mystical. His second collection of poetry, Veinte Poemas de Amor was concerned in particular with his discovery of woman and the universe and it brought him recognition in his native Chile when he was barely twenty. It was the Spanish Civil War, however, and the death of the poet and playwright Lorca that drove his need to speak for the ordinary people. This collection of his poetry contains work written between the years 1924 and 1967.