Book contents
- A History of Mexican Poetry
- A History of Mexican Poetry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Practice of Epic and Lyric Writing in Colonial Mexico
- Chapter 2 La lírica del Fénix: Sor Juana’s Poetic Legacy
- Chapter 3 The Sound of the Word: Music and Social Transgression in Lyric Poetry from the Colonia Onward
- Chapter 4 We, the Romantics
- Chapter 5 Sentimental Sociabilities: The Young Romantics and Their Long-Lived Widows
- Chapter 6 Modernismo’s Strategic Occidentalism: Notes on Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera, Amado Nervo, and José Juan Tablada
- Chapter 7 The Crepusculars: Criollo Modernism and the Invention of the Literary Province
- Chapter 8 Poesía en voz alta: A Trajectory of Poetry and Performance in México
- Chapter 9 The Great Synthesis of the Critical Poets: The Rise of Octavio Paz
- Chapter 10 Octavio Paz and the Institutions of Poetry
- Chapter 11 The Form That Contains Multitudes: The Mexican Long Poem (1924–2020)
- Chapter 12 Radical Freedoms: Neobaroque, Postpoetry
- Chapter 13 The Age of Anthology
- Chapter 14 Twentieth-Century Mexican Poetry: The Popular and the Political
- Chapter 15 Poetry in Indigenous Languages: From the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries
- Chapter 16 Chicanx Poetry: The Living Lyric
- Chapter 17 Racimos: Dissonances in Mexican Poetry of Today
- Index
- References
Chapter 9 - The Great Synthesis of the Critical Poets: The Rise of Octavio Paz
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2024
Book contents
- A History of Mexican Poetry
- A History of Mexican Poetry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Practice of Epic and Lyric Writing in Colonial Mexico
- Chapter 2 La lírica del Fénix: Sor Juana’s Poetic Legacy
- Chapter 3 The Sound of the Word: Music and Social Transgression in Lyric Poetry from the Colonia Onward
- Chapter 4 We, the Romantics
- Chapter 5 Sentimental Sociabilities: The Young Romantics and Their Long-Lived Widows
- Chapter 6 Modernismo’s Strategic Occidentalism: Notes on Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera, Amado Nervo, and José Juan Tablada
- Chapter 7 The Crepusculars: Criollo Modernism and the Invention of the Literary Province
- Chapter 8 Poesía en voz alta: A Trajectory of Poetry and Performance in México
- Chapter 9 The Great Synthesis of the Critical Poets: The Rise of Octavio Paz
- Chapter 10 Octavio Paz and the Institutions of Poetry
- Chapter 11 The Form That Contains Multitudes: The Mexican Long Poem (1924–2020)
- Chapter 12 Radical Freedoms: Neobaroque, Postpoetry
- Chapter 13 The Age of Anthology
- Chapter 14 Twentieth-Century Mexican Poetry: The Popular and the Political
- Chapter 15 Poetry in Indigenous Languages: From the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries
- Chapter 16 Chicanx Poetry: The Living Lyric
- Chapter 17 Racimos: Dissonances in Mexican Poetry of Today
- Index
- References
Summary
In the wake of the Mexican Revolution and its long aftermath, a distinguished lineage of Mexican poets that were also – and perhaps more importantly – outstandingly gifted essayists, made a sustained effort to reconstitute a national tradition fully inserted in Occidentalism. This chapter examines this great synthesis of the critical poets, beginning with Alfonso Reyes, followed by the Contemporáneos group, and arriving at the major accomplishments of Octavio Paz. The chapter focuses on Paz, establishing the different sources of his ideas on critical poetry and then examining some of his most significant compositions in this vein, with a particular focus on “Himno entre ruinas.”
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