The Generation of '27

In December 1927 young poets gathered in Seville for the tercentenary of Góngora, a baroque poet the university despised. From that homage came a group that holds learned tradition and avant-garde together: Lorca mixes Andalusian duende with modern verse, Guillén builds a song of the world's self-evidence, Cernuda and Aleixandre write desire without detour. The civil war scattered everything, Lorca was murdered in 1936, most went into exile. The group remains the summit of twentieth-century Spanish poetry.

works 7

• PoetryCánticoJorge Guillén · 1928Poems of light and of accord with the world, written with an economy of words in which the noun outweighs the verb.Literature
• PoetryConcerning the AngelsSobre los ángelesRafael Alberti · 1929Angels who are the dark forces of a poet in crisis, in verse that slips towards dream.Literature
• TheatreBlood WeddingBodas de sangreFederico García Lorca · 1933On her wedding day, a bride runs away with the man she once loved, and the whole wedding party sets off in pursuit of them.Literature
• PoetryMy Voice Because of YouLa voz a ti debidaPedro Salinas · 1933Seventy love poems addressed to a woman who is never named, like a single song in several moments.Literature
• PoetryLa realidad y el deseoLuis Cernuda · 1936not translated into EnglishThe whole poetry of a lifetime, gathered into a single book that was constantly enlarged, between desire and a reality that thwarts it.Literature
• PoetryShadow of ParadiseSombra del paraísoVicente Aleixandre · 1944The longing for a nature from before the fall, dazzling and intact, which the poet still hopes to find again.Literature
• PoetryChildren of WrathHijos de la iraDámaso Alonso · 1944A cry against an unjust world and against the silence of God, uttered from post-war Madrid.Literature