Jorge Guillén

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Jorge Guillén y Álvarez [ ˈxoɾxe ɣiˈʎen ] (born January 18, 1893 in Valladolid , † February 6, 1984 in Málaga ) was a Spanish poet . He belonged to the Generación del 27 .

biography

Jorge Guillén, who had studied philosophy and literature , was an assistant teacher of Spanish at the Sorbonne from 1917 to 1923 . In 1925 he was appointed professor of Spanish literature at the University of Murcia . From 1929 he taught at Oxford , and from 1932 to 1938 at the University of Seville . In 1938 he went into exile in Canada , and from 1941 to 1967 he taught at Wellesley College in the USA . He then went back to Europe, first to Florence and later to Málaga , where he died at the age of 91.

Act

Jorge Guillén strongly influenced the generation of Spanish poets that followed him with his poetry. His best-known work is the volume of poems Cántico (German title: Lobgesang), published in 1928 , in which Guillén praises the beauty of the world. The original version contained 75 poems, but was expanded several times, most recently in 1950. The final version consists of 334 poems.

In 1964, Guillén was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1976 he received the Cervantes Prize .

bibliography

  • 1928 - Cántico
  • 1954 - Huerto de Melibea
  • 1956 - Del amanecer y el despertar
  • 1957 - Clamor. Maremagnun
  • 1957 - Lugar de Lázaro
  • 1959 - Federíco en persona (Memoirs)
  • 1960 - Clamor ... Que van a dar en la mar
  • 1960 - Historia Natural
  • 1961 - Language and Poetry (essays)
  • 1962 - Las tentaciones de Antonio
  • 1962 - Segun las horas
  • 1963 - Clamor. A la altura de las circunstancias
  • 1967 - Homenaje. Reunion de vidas
  • 1969 - Aire nuestro: Cántico, Clamor, Homenaje
  • 1970 - Guirnalda civil
  • 1972 - Al margins
  • 1973 - Y otros poemas
  • 1975 - Convivencia
  • 1981 - final
  • 1981 - La expresión

German editions

  • Hymn of praise. A selection. Verlag die Arche, 1952. Transferred from Ernst Robert Curtius .
  • Language and poetry. Some examples from Spain. Hanser 1965. German by Rainer Specht. ISBN 978-3-446-11228-5
  • My friend Federico Garcia Lorca. An exchange of letters. Limes, Wiesbaden 1965. Transferred from Hildegard Baumgardt and Enrique Beck .
  • Selected poems. Spanish / German, Suhrkamp 1974. Translated and with an afterword by Hildegard Baumgardt. ISBN 3-518-01411-0
  • Calling to be. Selected poems. Spanish / German, Heyne 1992. Transferred from Hildegard Baumgardt. ISBN 978-3-453-85015-6

Secondary literature

  • Jorge Guilléns Cántico. A study of motives. by Georg Rudolf Lind . Analecta Romanica 1, supplements to the Romance research, Frankfurt am Main 1955. ISBN 978-3-465-00494-3
  • On the poetry of Jorge Guillén. Architectural and Ordo in the Twentieth Century. by Barbara Mitterer. Series of Freiburg writings on Romance philology, vol. 35. Fink, Munich 1978 ISBN 978-3-7705-1482-3
  • Jorge Guillén's intercultural poetics: a work between poetry, literary history and literary criticism. by Harda Distrid Miebach. Utz, 2008. ISBN 978-3-8316-0765-5

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personal data
SURNAME Guillén, Jorge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guillén y Álvarez, Jorge (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish poet
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Valladolid
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1984
Place of death Málaga