The poet spent his childhood and youth in Temuco, where he also got to know Gabriela Mistral, head of the girls' secondary school, who took a liking to him, who won the Nobel Price years before Neruda. The pen name of Pablo Neruda was adopted in memory of the Czechoslovak poet Jan Neruda (1834-1891).

Some of the poems Neruda wrote at that time are to be found in his first published book: Crepu

sculario (1923). The following year saw the publication of Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada, one of his best-known and most translated works. “Veinte Poemas brought the author notoriety with its explicit celebration of sexuality” (Clemens). This work is the one that most people say that led him to become a great poet; this is one of his most important works.. “Some of Neruda’s most powerful poetry was in Veinte Poemas” (De la Costa). Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada, means Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, which was edited in June, 1924.He said that “this book was a painful book that contains one of his most tormented adolescent passions, mixed with some of the nature of the southern part of his cou

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