Madeline Miller vs. Pablo Neruda
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Madeline Miller
1978 – present
Madeline Miller is an American novelist, author of The Song of Achilles (2011) and Circe (2018). Miller spent ten years writing The Song of Achilles while she worked as a teacher of Latin and Greek. The novel tells the story of the love between the mythological figures Achilles and Patroclus; it won the Orange Prize for Fiction, making Miller the fourth debut novelist to win the prize.
"In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of…"
Pablo Neruda
1904 – 1973
Chilean poet, diplomat, and politician widely regarded for his passionate and political poetry; awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971.
"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way…"
Connections
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