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Guillen: Cantico

Guillen: Cantico

Paperback

Series: Spanish Texts

SpanishLiterary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1853995460
ISBN13: 9781853995460
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Published: Jun 25 1998
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.48 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Jorge Guillen belongs to a brilliant cluster of Spanish poets, a generation once defined by Salinas, one of its members, as born under a lyrical star. Towards the end of his life Guillen's most famous work Cantico - the fruit of some 30 years of labour - was recognized as a masterpiece and stands alongside the poetical works of Lorca, Alberti and Cernuda. Most usefully translated as a hymn or song of praise, Cantico is an antidote to today's world of doubts, fears, conflicts and seductive philosophies of despair. The attitude to life it holds out to its readers is summed up in the epitaph on Guillen's tomb in the English cemetery in Malaga: Aqui yace un enamorado de la vida (Here lies a lover of life).

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