The Generation of ’27: A Golden Age of Spanish Poetry
Modernism
Distinguishing Features:
- Search for musicality and artistic perfection.
- Use of prose-verse and abundant rhetorical figures.
- Full of sensuality and colorful descriptions.
- Escapism.
- Rebellion against bourgeois society.
Poetry:
Rubén Darío:
- Musicality and preciousness.
- Key works: Azul, Profane Prose, Songs of Life and Hope.
Juan Ramón Jiménez:
- Search for absolute beauty.
- Three stages in his work:
- Modernist poetry: Gardens Far, Sad Arias.
- Pure poetry: Diary of a Newly Married Poet.
- Poetry of sufficient
20th Century Spanish Novelists: A Literary Analysis
Valle-Inclán
Bohemian and Eccentric
Stages
– Stage of the Sonatas
His style reflects refined senses. The work par excellence is the tetralogy Sonatas.
– Stage Between the Sonatas and the Nonsensical
His novels are filled with rural settings and contrasting, violent characters, and use harsher language. His masterpiece is the Carlist War.
– Stage Grotesque
The absurdity also seizes Tirano Banderas and novels like The Iberian Arena.
(The absurdity: a literary creation of Valle-Inclán which is the grotesque
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Modernism
Distinguishing Features
- Searching for the musicality of artistic perfection.
- Prose-like verse and abundant use of rhetorical figures.
- Full of sensuality and colorful descriptions.
- Escapism.
- Rebellion against bourgeois society.
Poetry
Rubén Darío
- Musicality and preciousness.
- Blue Profane Prose, Songs of Life and Hope.
Juan Ramón Jiménez
- Search for absolute beauty.
- Three stages in his work:
- “Poetry modernist gardens far, Arias sad.
- Pure poetry: Diary of a Newly Married Poet.
- Poetry: Animal Background,
The Poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez and Antonio Machado
Juan Ramón Jiménez (Moguer 1881 – Puerto Rico 1958)
There are constant búsquedas in Juan Ramón Jiménez (JRJ) that peculiarly explain the evolution of his work. These are summarized in numerous critical journeys through the history of Spanish poetry, from Modernism to the avant-garde forms. The evolution of JRJ is divided into the following three phases:
1st Phase: Sensitive Stage (1900-1915)
The first books: JRJ began to write at 17 years old. His sample poems are of a post-romantic, Bécquerian
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The Generation of 27
In 1927, a meeting was held at the Ateneo de Sevilla to commemorate the tercentenary of the death of Góngora. The meeting was attended by a group of authors who admired him for the development of his poetic language. This date is used to name them as a group: the Generation of 27.
This group had a great intellectual formation; several were university professors. They held a cordial relationship and often collaborated on the same literary magazines, such as The Gazelle, Literary
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Juan Ramón Jiménez (Moguer 1881 – Puerto Rico 1958)
There are constant búsquedas in J.R.J.’s peculiar quest to explain his work’s evolution. These are summaries of the many critical explorations of the stages of Spanish poetry from Modernismo to other proper forms. The evolution of his work can be divided into three stages:
1st Stage: The Sensitive Stage (1915 – early 1920s)
Early books: Jiménez began to write at 17 years old. His sample poems are of a post-romantic, Bécquerian tone – adolescent.
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