A Generation of Spanish Poets 1920–1936 (Major European Authors Series) - Hardcover

Morris, C. B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521073812 ISBN 13: 9780521073813

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1969

Synopsis

This critical study of the group of remarkably talented poets who flourished in Spain between the First World War and the Spanish Civil War includes copious quotations accompanied by English prose translations. Mr Morris treats his poets as a group, showing how they shared certain themes and attitudes. He begins with a general study of the generation as a whole and then examines the use of tradition; the zest and levity of the Jazz Age; the exaltation of life as a shared attitude; then its converse; the escape from life; and finally the expression in complex imagery of personal tensions and disturbances. These are often 'difficult' poets, but become less so when they are sympathetically examined in this way and in relation to earlier literary traditions. Mr Morris enables the reader to take bearings and establish relationships which are enhanced by reproductions of photographs of the poets.

About this title

Book Description

This critical study of the group of remarkably talented poets who flourished in Spain between the First World War and the Spanish Civil War demonstrates how they shared certain themes and attitudes. These are often 'difficult' poets, but become less so when they are sympathetically examined by Mr Morris.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1969
• ISBN 10: 0521073812
• ISBN 13: 9780521073813
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 314