100 Love Sonnets and Twenty Love Poems

English version of Pablo Neruda's two books are kept in one book.
Book 1: 100 Love Sonnets is a collection of one hundred sonnets written by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and was published first in 1959 in Spanish. The poems are dedicated to his third wife Matilde Urrutia. In the book poems are kept in four sections - Morning, Afternoon, Evening and Night. Though the sonnets have been translated by various translators, the translation work done by MIT Professor and translator Stephen Tapscott is widely acclaimed.
Book 2: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair is a collection of romantic poems by Pablo Neruda, first published in 1924 when Neruda was 19. It was Neruda's second published work and made his name as a poet. It's Neruda's best-known work, and has sold more than 20 million copies. It remains the best- selling poetry book in the Spanish language ever, almost 100 years after its first publication.

Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904 - September 23, 1973) was a poet and diplomat of Chile and one of the great poets of the 20th century. He started writing from childhood days but considered as a poet of national level at the age of 20 after publication of his second collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. He occupied many diplomatic positions in various countries during his lifetime and served a term as a Senator for the Chilean Communist Party. Due to political reasons he had to live in exile from 1948-52. In 1971, he was awarded Nobel Prize for literature. He died in cancer on September 23, 1973.