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Gerardo Diego
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Gerardo Diego Cendoya
Gerardo Diego, in full Gerardo Diego Cendoya, (born Oct. 3, 1896, Santander, Spain—died July 8, 1987, Madrid), Spanish musicologist and prolific, innovative poet.
Diego received a doctorate from the University of Madrid in 1920. During the 1920s he wrote experimental poetry and joined the avant-garde Ultraísmo and Creacionismo movements. He taught for a time in the ancient town of Soria in north-central Spain; the location inspired the poems of Imagen (1922), Soria (1923), and Versos humanos (1925; “Human Verses”). In Vía crucis (1931; “Way of the Cross”) Diego explored religious themes. Angeles de Compostela (1940; rev. ed., 1961), which also contains religious poetry, and Alondra de verdad (1941; “Lark of Truth”), a diary in 42 sonnets, have been called his best work; both collections are relatively traditional and classical in tone.
From 1939 to 1966 Diego was a professor at the Beatriz Galindo Institute in Madrid, where he continued to produce new poems at a rapid rate. Paisaje con figuras (1956; “Landscape with Figures”) won the second of his national literary awards, and in 1979 he shared the Cervantes Prize with Jorge Luis Borges.
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Luis Cernuda, Pedro Salinas, Gerardo Diego, and Dámaso Alonso. Generally speaking, these poets were influenced by such wider European movements as Symbolism, Futurism, and Surrealism, and they helped introduce the tenets of these movements into Spanish literature. They rejected the use of traditional metre and rhyme and discarded anecdotal…
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer whose works have become classics of 20th-century world literature. Borges was reared in the then-shabby Palermo district of Buenos Aires, the setting of some of his works. His family, which had been notable in Argentine history,…
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Spain, country located in extreme southwestern Europe. It occupies about 85 percent of the Iberian Peninsula, which it shares with its smaller neighbour Portugal. Spain is a storied country of stone castles, snowcapped mountains, vast monuments, and sophisticated cities, all of which have made it a…
Poetry
Poetry, literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm. Poetry is a vast subject, as old as history and older, present wherever religion is present, possibly—under…
Creacionismo
Creacionismo, (Spanish: “Creationism”), short-lived experimental literary movement among Spanish writers in France, Spain, and Latin America. It was founded about 1916 in Paris by the Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro. That year Huidobro also began a friendship with the French poet Pierre Reverdy, who…
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