Jorge Guillén

Jorge Guillén ( Valladolid , January 18 , 1893 – Málaga , February 6 , 1984 ) was a Spanish poet and literary critic, belonging to the Generation of ’27 . His lyrics offer a positive vision of the world and are a paradigm of the so-called “poetry.” pure.”

Summary

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• 1 Biographical summary
  • 1 Studies
  • 2 Labor
  • 3 Death
• 2 Awards
• 3 Poetic work
• 4 See also
• 5 Sources

Biographical summary

Born into a wealthy family, he studied Philosophy and Letters, a degree that he would finish in Granada in 1913. He was a Spanish reader at the Sorbonne between 1917 and 1923 and at Oxford between 1929 and 1931. Very soon he began his friendship with Pedro Salinas , to whom he will dedicate all his work.

Studies

In 1924 he received his doctorate with a thesis on Góngora . From 1926 to 1929 he was professor of Spanish Language and Literature at the University of Murcia ; In 1931 he went to the University of Seville , where he was surprised by the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) .

Arrested and imprisoned, he left Spain in 1937 for the United States ; He teaches at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.

Work

He was a visiting professor at various North American university centers, in Puerto Rico , in Mexico and in other Latin American countries. Starting in 1949 he made trips to Europe : Spain , France and Italy . Between 1957 and 1958 he held the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry at Harvard University , where he taught a course on Language and Poetry , also published in Spanish: Language and Poetry .

His stay in Paris allowed him to come into contact with Paul Valéry and his conception of a pure and structured poetry with a demanding formal rigor, which would be very influential in Guillén’s work.

He was the author of a study on the Poetics of Bécquer , he has edited The Song of Songs by Fray Luis de León , and the correspondence of García Lorca (Federico in person) . He translated Valéry (The Marine Cemetery) , Superville , Claydel , Cassou .

Death

When he retired, he alternated periods of his life in the United States and Italy .

He died in the city of Malaga on February 6 , 1984 .

Awards

Cervantes Prize

In 1977 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize , he was the first writer to receive this award.

poetic work

• Canticle (75 poems), M., Western Magazine, 1928
• Canticle (125 poems), M., Cruz y Raya, 1936.
• Canticle (270 poems), México, Litoral, 1944.
• Canticle (334 poems), Buenos Aires, Sudamericana, 1951.
• Huerto de Melibea, M., Ínsula, 1954.
• Of the dawn and the awakening, Valladolid, 1956.
• Maremagnun, Bs. As., Sudamericana, 1957.
• Place of Lázaro, Málaga, Col. To the one who goes with me, 1957.
• .. They are going to hit the sea, Buenos Aires, Sudamericana, 1960.
• Natural History, Palma de Mallorca, Sons Armadans Papers, 1960.
• The Temptations of Antonio, Florencia/Santander, Graf. Bedia Brothers, 1962.
• According to the hours, Puerto Rico, Editorial Universitaria, 1962.
• At the height of the circumstances, Bs. As., Sudamericana, 1963.
• Meeting of lives, Milan, All’Insegna del Pesce d’oro, 1967.
• Our air: Canticle, Clamor, Tribute, Milan, All’Insegna del Pesce d’oro, 1968.
• Civil Wreath, Cambridge, Halty Eferguson, 1970.
• On the margin, M., Visor, 1972.
• And other poems, Buenos Aires, Muchnik, 1973.
• Coexistence, M., Turner, 1975.
• Final, B., Barral, 1981.
• The expression, Ferrol, Valle-Inclán Culture Society, 1981.

He translated Le cimetière marin , by Paul Valery (Paris and Buenos Aires, 1930).