Vicente Aleixandre Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 25 pages of information about the life of Vicente Aleixandre.

Vicente Aleixandre Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 25 pages of information about the life of Vicente Aleixandre.
This section contains 7,363 words
(approx. 25 pages at 300 words per page)
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Dictionary of Literary Biography on Vicente Aleixandre

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 of Aleixandre's generation, such as Federico García Lorca and Jorge Guillén. After the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) a majority of the best Spanish poets left the country to live in exile, and Spain became for many a land of intellectual backwardness and of no creative artistic powers. But as the Spanish political situation began to change and interest in the country increased, the poetry of Aleixandre became the most representative of the contemporary period in Spain. His voice bridged the gap left by the war; the younger generations saw in his work a connecting link with the older poets who had died or left the...

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