Dámaso Alonso
Dámaso Alonso , full name Dámaso Alonso y Fernández de las Redondas , (born October 22, 1898 in Madrid , † January 25, 1990 ibid) was a Spanish poet , Romanist and Hispanist .
life and work
The scientist
Dámaso Alonso studied law, philosophy and linguistics at the University of Madrid , both of which he graduated with a licentiate . At the Centro de Estudios Históricos in Madrid, he was a student of Ramón Menéndez Pidal . From April 1921 to October 1922 he taught Spanish language and literature as a lecturer at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin , later at the University of Cambridge , at Stanford University and from 1931 to 1933 at the University of Oxford . In 1933 he received the Chair of Spanish Language and Literature at the University of Valencia . In 1935 he was visiting professor in Leipzig . In 1941 he was appointed to the University of Madrid, where he taught until 1968. Fernando Lázaro Carreter was one of his students in Madrid . He published the Revista de Filología Española .
The poet
The poet Alonso was “one of the leaders of the literary revolution against the Spain of the bourgeoisie. ... His weapons were the images and the tricky grammar of Góngora ”. He belonged to the Generación del 27 . His main work Hijos de la ira. Diario íntimo , Madrid 1944 (German: Sons of Zorn. Poems , translated and edited by Karl August Horst , 1954) caused a sensation in Franco's Spain . It consists of a “series of lamentation poems, self-denial and polemical attacks, which are marked by pain, rage and supported by precise metaphors, demonstrate the unusual resilience of a poet 'in poor time'” and “honestly evoke the spiritual and material destruction of the country”.
Honors (selection)
- In 1927 Alonso received the Premio Nacional de Literatura .
- In 1943 he received the Premio Fastenrath .
- In 1948 he was elected a member of the Real Academia Española and publicly accepted in 1950; after the death of Ramón Menéndez Pidal, he took over its management until 1982.
- In 1952 he was elected a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .
- In 1959 he was elected a member of the Real Academia de la Historia .
- In 1960 he received the Premio Ausiàs March for essay writing .
- In 1962 he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society .
- In 1968 he received the Order of the Infante Dom Henrique (Grand Officer).
- In 1969 he was elected a member of the Accademia della Crusca .
- In 1973 he was elected honorary member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua .
- In 1978 Alonso received the Cervantes Prize .
- Numerous universities have awarded Dámaso Alonso honorary doctorates, including the universities of Bordeaux , Hamburg , Freiburg , Rome , Oxford , Lisbon , Oviedo , Granada as well as Harvard University , the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima and the Universidad de Costa Rica .
Fonts
As an author
- La lengua poética de Góngora , Madrid 1935
- La Poesía de San Juan de la Cruz , Madrid 1942
- Ensayos sobre poesía española , Buenos Aires 1946
- Vida y obra de Medrano , Madrid 1948
- Poesía española . Ensayo de métodos y límites estilísticos. Garcilaso. Fray Luis de León. San Juan de la Cruz. Góngora. Lope de Vega. Quevedo , Madrid 1950, 5th edition 1993 (German: Spanish poetry. An experiment on methods and limits of style . German by Christoph Eich with the collaboration of Ina Reiss. Francke, Bern and Munich 1962)
- (with Carlos Bousoño ) Seis calas en la expresión literaria española, prosa, poesía, teatro , Madrid 1951
- Poetas españoles contemporaneos , Madrid 1952, 3rd edition 1988
- La Primitiva épica francesa a la luz de una nota emilianense , Madrid 1954
- Estudios y ensayos gongorinos , Madrid 1955, 1960
- Menéndez Pelayo, crítico literario. Las palinodias de Don Marcelino , Madrid 1956
- De los siglos oscuros al de Oro. Notas y artículos a través de 700 años de letras españolas , Madrid 1958
- Primavera temprana de la literatura europea. Lírica, épica, novela , Madrid 1961
- Dos Españoles del Siglo de oro. Un poeta madrileñista, latinista y francesista en la mitad del siglo XVI. El Fabio de la "Epístola moral", su cara y cruz en Méjico y en España , Madrid 1960
- Góngora y el “Polifemo”, 2 volumes, Madrid 1960–1961
- Del Siglo de Oro a este siglo de siglas. Notas y artículos a través de 350 años de letras españolas , Madrid 1962
- Cuatro poetas españoles. Garcilaso. Góngora. Maragall. Antonio Machado , Madrid 1962
- Cancionero y romancero español , Madrid 1969, 1985
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Obras completas , 10 volumes, Madrid 1972–1993
- Vol. 1. Estudios lingüisticos peninsulares (1972)
- Vol. 2-4. Estudios y ensayos sobre literatura (1973–1975)
- Vol. 5-7. Góngora y el gongorismo (1978–1984)
- Vol. 8. Comentarios de textos (1985)
- Vol. 9. Poesía española y otros estudios (1989)
- Vol. 10. Verso y prosa literaria (1993)
- En torno a Lope. Marino. Cervantes. Benavente. Góngora. Los Cardenios , Madrid 1972
- María Asunción Mateo (Ed.): Dámaso Alonso para niños . Ediciones de la Torre, Madrid 1985, ISBN 84-85866-68-1 .
As editor
- Luis de Góngora : Las Soledades , Madrid 1927, 1956
- Luis Carrillo de Sotomayor: Poesías completas , Madrid 1936
- Gil Vicente : Tragicomedia de Don Duardos , Madrid 1942
- (with Rafael Ferreres): Cancionero antequerano, recogido por los años 1627 y 1628 por Ignacio de Toledo y Godoy , Madrid 1950
- El Hospital de los podridos y otros entremeses alguna vez atribuidos a Cervantes , Madrid 1987
- Francisco de Medrano: Poesía , Madrid 1988
As translator
- Walther von Wartburg : Problemas y metodos de la linguistica , Madrid 1951, 1991
German editions
- Sons of wrath. Poems . Translated from Spanish and edited by Karl August Horst (= Library Suhrkamp Vol. 12). Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1954 (newer edition 1997: ISBN 978-3-518-01022-8 ).
- Spanish poetry. Attempt about methods and limits of style . German by Christoph Eich with the collaboration of Ina Reiss. Francke, Bern and Munich 1962.
- Essays on Spanish literature , edited by Günther Haensch and Thekla Lepsius. Hueber, Ismaning 1974, ISBN 3-19-004024-9 .
literature
General
- María Asunción Mateo (Ed.): Dámaso Alonso para niños . Ediciones de la Torre, Madrid 1985, ISBN 84-85866-68-1 .
The poet
- Miguel Jaroslaw Flys: La Poesía existencial de Dámaso Alonso . Gredos, Madrid 1968.
- Elsie Alvarado de Ricord: La Obra poética de Dámaso Alonso . Gredos, Madrid 1968.
- Rafael Ferreres: Aproximación a la poesía de Dámaso Alonso . Bello, Valencia 1976.
- Erwin Walter Palm : portraits of poets . In the S. Memories and texts (= Ibero-American Archive , NF ISSN 0340-3068 , vol. 15 (1989), issue 4). Colloquium Verlag, Berlin 1989, pp. 605-626; on Dámaso Alonso : pp. 611–612.
- Concha Zardoya, Ricardo Gullón, Dámaso Santos (eds.): Dámaso Alonso. Una poética dramática de la existencia. Creación e investigación = Anthropos. Revista de documentación científica de la cultura , ISSN 0211-5611 , year 1990, issue 106/107 (themed issue dedicated to Dámaso Alonso).
- Elisabeth Kruse: The recepción creadora de la tradición mística en la lírica de Dámaso Alonso. ¿Un poeta metafísico moderno? Fool Francke Attempto, Tübingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8233-6995-0 .
The Romanist
- Emeterio G. Setién de Jesús María: Las raíces de la poesía sanjuanista y Dámaso Alonso . El Monte Carmelo, Burgos 1950.
- Studia philologica. Homenaje ofrecido a Dámaso Alonso por sus amigos y discípulos con ocasión de su 60. Aniversario , 3 vols. Gredos, Madrid 1960–1963
- Homenaje universitario a Dámaso Alonso. Reunido por los estudiantes de filología románica. Curso 1968-1969 . Gredos, Madrid 1970.
- Valerio Báez San José: La estilística de Dámaso Alonso . Universidad de Sevilla, Seville 1971.
- Manuel Alvar : La estilística de Damaso Alonso. Herencias e intuiciones . Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca 1977, ISBN 84-600-1027-9 .
bibliography
- Fernando Huarte Morton, Juan Antonio Ramírez Ovelar: Bibliografía de Dámaso Alonso . Gredos, Madrid 1998, ISBN 84-249-1898-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Damaso Alonso in the catalog of the library of the Instituto Cervantes in Germany
- Literature by and about Dámaso Alonso in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography at www.los-poetas.com (with picture)
- Damaso Alonso in the Online Encyclopædia Britannica
Individual evidence
- ^ Richard Beitl: Investigations into the mythology of the child . Edited by Bernd Rieken and Michael Simon. Waxmann, Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-8309-1809-7 , p. XVI, note 7.
- ↑ María Asunción Mateo (Ed.): Dámaso Alonso para niños . Ediciones de la Torre, Madrid 1985, p. 35.
- ↑ María Asunción Mateo (Ed.): Dámaso Alonso para niños . Ediciones de la Torre, Madrid 1985, p. 36.
- ^ Erwin Walter Palm: Dámaso Alonso . In the S. Memories and texts . Colloquium Verlag, Berlin 1989, pp. 611-612, quoted on p. 611.
- ^ Klaus Dirscherl: The poetry in the 20th century . In: Christoph Strosetzki (ed.): History of Spanish literature . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1991, ISBN 3-484-50307-6 , pp. 343-367, quotation p. 355.
- ^ Page at the Real Academia Española
- ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Dámaso Alonso (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 3, 2016.
- ↑ Real Academia de la Historia: Índice alfabético histórico: Dámaso Alonso y Fernández de las Redondas , accessed on November 22, 2019.
- ↑ Entry in the Academy's membership catalog
- ↑ Dámaso Alonso in the membership directory of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua ( Memento from May 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Dámaso Alonso on the Premio "Miguel de Cervantes" page, accessed on May 9, 2016.
- ↑ María Asunción Mateo (Ed.): Dámaso Alonso para niños . Ediciones de la Torre, Madrid 1985, pp. 37-38.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alonso, Dámaso |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Alonso y Fernández de las Redondas, Dámaso |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish poet, Romanist and Hispanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Madrid |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 25, 1990 |
| Place of death | Madrid |