by Luis Cernuda · Grupo Anaya Publicaciones Generales · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420637303
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«Antología poética» is the poetry anthology by Luis Cernuda, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
Luis Cernuda combines the longing for eternity with the fleetingness of time, and desire with the limits imposed by reality. His poetry expresses the mismatch between the self and the world: solitude, rebellious affirmation of independence, romantic failure, and anguish at the passage of time. This anthology brings together these motifs.
This edition was published in 2000, belongs to the collection El libro de bolsillo - Literatura; the selection and introduction are by Philip Silver.
It will appeal to readers of twentieth-century Spanish poetry and to those seeking an overview of Luis Cernuda's work.
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.
