by Luis Cernuda · Letras Cubanas · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420692319
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«Antología poética» is an anthology of poetry by Luis Cernuda, published in paperback (187 pages, in Spanish).
A selection of Cernuda's poetry featuring recurring themes: the conflict between imagination and reality, nostalgia for a habitable world, love doomed to failure, anguish at the passage of time, and the search for absolute beauty.
Part of the 'Biblioteca Fundamental de Nuestro Tiempo' collection (no. 33) and includes introduction and selection by Philip Silver. 1984 edition.
For those who enjoy Spanish lyric poetry and wish to approach 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.
