by Luis Cernuda · ANDALUCÍA. CONSEJERÍA DE CULTURA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788482662718
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«Antología» is a poetry anthology by Luis Cernuda, published by the Consejería de Cultura de la Junta de Andalucía in paperback (60 pages, in Spanish).
The work is a selection of the poetry of Luis Cernuda, a central figure of the Generation of '27, with a prologue by Francisco Brines. His writing, serene and restrained, explores the clash between the never-satisfied desire for beauty and purity and the mediocrity of everyday reality, with a depth that has marked 20th-century Spanish lyric poetry.
Published in 2002; the Centro Andaluz de las Letras appears as the publishing imprint.
For readers of Spanish poetry interested in the Generation of '27.
Luis Cernuda Bidón was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27. During the Spanish Civil War, in early 1938, he went to the UK to deliver some lectures and this became the start of an exile that lasted till the end of his life. He taught in the universities of Glasgow and Cambridge before moving in 1947 to the US. In the 1950s he moved to Mexico. While he continued to write poetry, he also published wide-ranging books of critical essays, covering French, English and German as well as Spanish literature. He was frank about his homosexuality at a time when this was problematic and became something of a role model for this in Spain. His collected poems were published under the title La realidad y el deseo.
