Vicente Aleixandre
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Vicente Aleixandre was a Spanish poet who lived from 1898 to 1984 and became one of the major literary figures of twentieth-century Spain. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1977, making him an important voice in modern European poetry.
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- Born
- 26 April 1898
- Died
- 14 December 1984
- Works
- 141
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- Epistolario
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- Dibujos de Gregorio Paieto para el Paraiso perdido de Milton
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Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo ( Spanish pronunciation: [biˈθente alejɣˈsandɾe]; 26 April 1898 – 14 December 1984) was a Spanish poet who was born in Seville. Aleixandre received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977 "for a creative poetic writing which illuminates man's condition in the cosmos and in present-day society, at the same time representing the great renewal of the traditions of Spanish poetry between the wars". He was part of the Generation of '27.
Aleixandre's early poetry, which he wrote mostly in free verse, is highly surrealistic. It also praises the beauty of nature by using symbols that represent the earth and the sea. Many of Aleixandre's early poems are filled with sadness. They reflect his feeling that people have lost the passion and free spirit that he saw in nature. He was one of the greatest poets of Spanish literature alongside Cernuda and Lorca. The melancholia of his poetry was also the melancholy of failed or ephemeral love affairs.
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