Canto General
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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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The XV Cantos
- First Canto. A Lamp on Earth.
- Second Canto. The Heights of Macchu Picchu
- Third Canto. The Conquistadors
- Fourth Canto. The Liberators
- Fifth Canto. The Sand Betrayed
- Sixth Canto. America, I Do Not Invoke Your Name in Vain
- Seventh Canto. Canto General of Chile
- Eighth Canto. The Earth’s Name is Juan
- Ninth Canto. Let the Woodcutter Awaken
- Tenth Canto. The Fugitive
- Eleventh Canto. The Flower of Punitaqui
- Twelfth Canto. The Rivers of Song
- Thirteenth Canto. New Year’s Chorale for the Country in Darkness
- Fourteenth Canto. The Great Ocean
- Fifteenth Canto. I Am
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