Blas de Otero
Blas de Otero (born March 15, 1916 in Bilbao , † June 29, 1979 in Madrid ) was a Spanish poet .
Otero received training at a Jesuit school in his youth and studied law in Valladolid and philosophy and literature in Madrid. After the Spanish Civil War he worked as a lawyer for a short time. After a trip to Paris , he joined the Communist Party in 1951. In the next few years he lived in France and Cuba for a long time .
In 1942 Otero made his debut with the religiously influenced collection of poems Cántico espiritual , with which he referred to the work of the same name by Juan de la Cruz . After dealing with metaphysical questions in the three volumes of poetry Ángel fieramente humano , Redoble de conciencia and Ancia , Otero became the most important representative of Spanish poesía social with Pido la paz y la palabra , En Castellano and Que trata de España .
Works
- Cántico espiritual (1942)
- Ángel fieramente humano (1950)
- Pido la paz y la palabra (1955)
- Ancia (1958)
- En castellano (1959)
- Esto no es un libro (1963)
- Que trata de España (1964)
- Mientras (1970)
- Expresión y reunión (1969)
- Verso y prosa (1974)
- Todos mis sonetos (1977)
- Poesía con nombres (1977)
- Viejo camarada (1978)
swell
- Ariadna G. García (Ed.): Antología de la poesía española (1939-1975) , Ediciones AKAL, 2006, ISBN 978-84-460-2021-9 , p. 127 ff
- Ignacio Arellano: Autores españoles , Edition Reichenberger, 1991, ISBN 978-3-928064-22-4 , pp. 335–337
- Biografías y Vidas - Blas de Otero
- Arte poetica - Blas de Otero
- A media voz - Blas de Otero
Web links
- Literature by and about Blas de Otero in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Otero, Blas de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish lyric poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bilbao |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 29, 1979 |
| Place of death | Madrid |