| 100 Love Sonnets | |
| Title Orig: | Cien sonetos de amor |
| Translator: | Stephen Tapscott |
| Author: | Pablo Neruda |
| Country: | Argentina |
| Language: | Spanish |
| Series: | Latin American Literature and Culture |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Publisher: | Editorial Losada |
| Release Date: | 1959 |
| Media Type: | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages: | 124 |
Spanish; Castilian: Cien sonetos de amor ("100 Love Sonnets") is a collection of sonnets written by the Chilean poet and Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda originally published in Argentina in 1959. Dedicated to Matilde Urrutia, later his third wife, it is divided into the four stages of the day: morning, afternoon, evening, and night.
The sonnets have been translated into English numerous times by various scholars. The most widely acclaimed English translation was made by Stephen Tapscott and published in 1986. In 2004, Gustavo Escobedo translated the 100 sonnets for the 100th anniversary of Neruda’s birth.
Something from far off: it seemeddeep and secret to me, hidden by the earth,a shout muffled by huge autumns,by the moist half-open darkness of the leaves.
Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprigsang under my tongue, its drifting fragranceclimbed up through my conscious mind
as if suddenly the roots I had left behindcried out to me, the land I had lost with my childhood—and I stopped, wounded by the wandering scent.– Translated by Stephen Tapscott[1]