Fifty Spanish Poems
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- ISBN 9780520374638
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 23 Sep 2022
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Fifty Spanish Poems introduces English-language readers to the lyrical intensity of Nobel laureate Juan Ramón Jiménez, the poet at the center of Spain’s modernist revival. This bilingual edition, with translations by J. B. Trend, highlights Jiménez’s delicate verbal music and his lifelong quest for “naked poetry”—verse stripped to essentials, luminous in its evocation of landscape, memory, and spiritual longing. Arranged from his early Elejías through mature works like Eternidades and La estación total, the volume allows readers to trace the poet’s evolution from symbolist influences to a profoundly personal poetics of light, silence, and pure being.
For students and general readers alike, this collection opens the world of Spanish modernismo beyond the familiar figure of García Lorca. Trend’s translations—attentive to rhythm and nuance—invite appreciation of Jiménez’s central role in shaping twentieth-century Spanish verse. Framed with an introduction situating Jiménez within the turbulent cultural landscape of Spain and its diaspora, Fifty Spanish Poems remains an essential gateway to the poet’s artistry and to the broader currents of Hispanic literary modernity.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1951.
For students and general readers alike, this collection opens the world of Spanish modernismo beyond the familiar figure of García Lorca. Trend’s translations—attentive to rhythm and nuance—invite appreciation of Jiménez’s central role in shaping twentieth-century Spanish verse. Framed with an introduction situating Jiménez within the turbulent cultural landscape of Spain and its diaspora, Fifty Spanish Poems remains an essential gateway to the poet’s artistry and to the broader currents of Hispanic literary modernity.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1951.
