Piedra de Sol

'Piedra de Sol' (Sunstone) is a poem by Octavio Paz, written in 1957. It was praised as a "magnificent" example of surrealist poetry in the presentation speech of his Nobel Prize. It has been translated into English by Eliot Weinberger, this translation was published in 1987 as part of the collection The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987. In 1991 this translation was joined with the original poem in a single volume published by New Direct... more

Author:

Date of first publication:

  • 1957

Publishing

Author

Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature. Paz was born to Octavio Paz Solórzano and Josefina Lozano. His father was an active supporter of the Revolution against the Diaz regime. Paz was...
top ↑

We can also tell you Piedra de Sol is a…

If you know more about Piedra de Sol, you can add more facts here »

Similar topics in Freebase

  • Evangeline

    Evangeline

    Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie is a poem published in 1847 by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel, set during the time of the Great Upheaval. The work was written in dactylic hexameter reminiscent of...
  • Stabat Mater

    Stabat Mater

    Stabat Mater is a thirteenth century Roman Catholic sequence variously attributed to Innocent III and Jacopone da Todi. Its title is an abbreviation of the first line, Stabat mater dolorosa ("The sorrowful mother stood"). The hymn, one of the most powerful and immediate of extant medieval poems,...
  • The Tale of Fedot the Strelets

    The Tale of Fedot the Strelets (rus. Сказка про Федота-стрельца, удалого молодца) is a play poem by Russian writer and actor Leonid Filatov, written in 1985 and first published in Yunost in 1986. With a storyline based on Russian folk tales, 'Fedot' is a social and political satire on contemporary...
  • Sonnet 16

    Shakespeare's Sonnet 16 is another of his procreation sonnets, this one continuing from Sonnet 15. In it, the speaker asks the young man why he does not actively fight against time and age by having a child. Why don't you fight time with weapons more powerful than my poetry? Right now you are in...
  • Meghadoota

    Megha Doota or Megha Sandesha (Cloud Messenger) was written by Kalidas and one of his greatest poems in which he describes how Yaksha has used clouds to send his message to his lover. It was written in 6th BC and poem contains 110 four-line stanzas. Meghadoota poem defines a situation of a man...
  • Sonnet 129

    Shakespeare's Sonnet #129 draws the reader into exhorting against the pursuit of love. The first twelve verses of the poem all qualify the first: “The expense of spirit in a waste of shame”. The second verse pins the most general general frame around the first “Is lust in action; and till action,...
  • Sonnet 95

    Sonnet 95 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. The youth's dissolute behaviour is making corruption seem beautiful. Even descriptions of the youth's...
  • Poems on Several Occasions

    Poems on Several Occasions was published by the intellectual feminist Lady Mary Chudleigh in 1703. The primary subject of the collection is the joys of friendship between women, when that friendship is based on shared morals and shared intellectual pursuits, although there are also poems on various...
  • Sonnet 33

    Shakespeare's Sonnet 33 is the first of what are sometimes called the estrangement sonnets (33-36): poems concerned with the speaker's response to an unspecified "sensual fault" (35) committed by his beloved. I've seen many beautiful mornings on which the sun shines on the mountaintops, the meadows...
  • After Blenheim

    "After Blenheim" is an anti-war poem written by English Romantic poet laureate Robert Southey in 1796. The poem is set at the site of the Battle of Blenheim (1704) several generations after the battle, and centres around small children's questions about a skull one of them has found. He tells them...

These people have edited this topic:

Edit this topic
Edit and Show details

Add or delete facts, download data in JSON or RDF formats, and explore topic metadata.

Freebase Logo
What is Freebase?

Freebase is a huge collection of facts, built by people like you. Freebase connects facts in ways other sites can't, giving you new ways to explore millions of subjects.
You can help improve it!

Freebase Attribution

Freebase data is free for use under the CC-BY license.

The original description for Piedra de Sol was automatically generated from Wikipedia.org licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
[1]
Learn more about Freebase licensing and attribution