Bow and the Lyre

Octavio Paz (1914–1998) was a Mexican poet who won the 1990 Nobel Prize in literature. Ruth L. C. Simms (1921–2018) worked as a Spanish language translator for the United States government and as a literary translator.

• Foreword to the First Edition Foreword to the Second Edition Introduction 1. Poetry and Poem The Poem 2. Language 3. Rhythm 4. Verse and Prose 5. The Image The Poetic Revelation 6. The Other Shore 7. The Poetic Revelation 8. Inspiration Poetry and History 9. The Consecration of the Instant 10. The Heroic World 11. Ambiguity of the Novel 12. The Discarnate Word Epilogue 13. Signs in Rotation Appendices I. Poetry, Society, State II. Poetry and Respiration III. Whitman, Poet of America Index

...it is a book so timeless and so profound that it will always be new.... it is unquestionably one of the strongest and most eloquent diaries of the poetic process in our century. (New York Times Book Review)