Vicente Aleixandre Summary

In 1977 the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Vicente Aleixandre, a Spanish poet whose name and works were little known outside Hispanic literary circles. For the rest of the world, contempora... Read more

An American educator and critic specializing in Spanish literature, Ilie is the author of The Surrealist Mode in Spanish Poetry (1968) and Documents of the Spanish Vanguard (1969) and has published bo... Read more

In the following essay, Hanak discusses several poems from In a Vast Dominion, especially "Antigua casa madrileña," in order to support his contention that Aleixandre endorses a m... Read more

In the following essay, which was originally published in Modern Language Notes in 1990, Mayhew explores Aleixandre's concern with the limitations of language as a tool for describing reality. ... Read more

An English educator and critic, Terry has published studies of the Spanish poets Joan Maragall and Antonio Machado and is the author of Catalan Literature (1972) and coauthor of Introduccion a la leng... Read more

A Mexican-born American educator, poet, and critic, Gonzalez-Gerth has published several volumes of verse. Here, he examines Aleixandre's treatment of love, fellowship, and humankind's r... Read more

In the following essay, which was originally published in Spanish in Journal of Spanish Studies: Twentieth Century in 1978, Cabrera asserts that Mundo a solas (World Alone), is a pivotal work between ... Read more

In the following essay, Garrison provides a close reading of the poem "Vida" in order to demonstrate that Aleixandre employs a definite rhetorical strategy in his surrealist poetry, imbu... Read more

In the following essay, Poust argues that Ámbito represents common ground between purist poets and phenomenologists. Vicente Aleixandre's ambivalence with regard to the relationship of h... Read more

In the following essay, Poust examines Aleixandre's notion of the evolution of unity in his poetic works. Vicente Aleixandre's understanding of the intertextual dynamics of his works str... Read more

In the following essay, Schwartz examines major themes in Destruction or Love and World Alone. I La Destrucción O El Amor Manuel Machado, Gerardo Diego, and Dámaso Alonso were members of... Read more

In the following essay, González-Gerth discusses the dichotomy of nature and man in Aleixandre's poetry. Vicente Aleixandre has been writing poetry for over half a century. To date he ha... Read more

In the following essay, Fernández-Morera offers an appraisal of Aleixandre's poetry in the context of modern poetry outside of Spain. “Spanish surrealist poet little known outside... Read more

In the following essay, Schwartz questions the influence of surrealism on Aleixandre, suggesting instead that the poet may have been more swayed by early psychoanalytic theory. Dámaso Alonso st... Read more