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, contemporary Spanish poetry was represented by other members...

Vicente Aleixandre's Stream of Lyric Consciousness. By. DANIEL MURPHY. Lewisburg and London: Bucknell University Press for the Associated University Presses. 2001. 263 pp. $43.50. ISBN 0-8387-5464-3. Daniel Murphy's study of the poetry of Vicente Aleixandre reminds us of the elegant pleasures afforded...

Tres poetas, tres amigos: Estudios sobre Vicente Aleixandre, Federico Garcia Lorca y Damaso Alonso. Ed. by FRANCISCO JAVIER DYEZ DE REVENGA and MARIANO DE PACO. Murcia: Caja Murcia, Obra Cultural. 1999. 348 pp. Price. Amongst the various centenary commemorations that took place...

In the following essay, Fernández-Morera offers an appraisal of Aleixandre's poetry in the context of modern poetry outside of Spain.

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.

A Chilean-born American educator and critic, Daydí-Tolson is the author of The Post-Civil War Spanish Poets (1983) and Five Poets of Aztlan (1985). In the following excerpt, he traces Aleixandre's early career from Ambito to Sombra del paraíso—the collection that marks the arrival of artistic maturity for Aleixandre, according to Daydí-Tolson.