Generation of ’27: Key Authors and Works

Posted on Feb 15, 2025 in Latin

Generation of ’27: Features

ITEM 15: Features of the Generation of ’27: Members work and publish together, pursuing aesthetic and stylistic perfection, uniting tradition and the avant-garde.

Poets of the Generation of ’27

Pedro Salinas

  • 1st Stage: Omens, Sure Chance, Fable and Sign.
  • 2nd Stage: The Voice Due to You, Love Reason, Long Sorrow.
  • 3rd Stage: Everything Clearer and Other Poems, Trust.
  • Essays: Jorge Manrique or Tradition and Originality, Rubén Darío’s Poetry, Spanish Literature. Twentieth Century, the Defender.

Jorge Guillén

Our Air:

  1. Canticle (subtitled “Faith of Life”).
  2. Clamor (subtitled “Time History”), divided into: Maremágnum, …That They Go to Sea, Living Up to the Occasion.
  3. Homage (subtitled “Lives Meeting”).
  4. And Other Poems.
  5. Final.

Rafael Alberti

  • 1st Stage (Neopopularist): Sailor on Land, The Lover, Dawn of the Wallflower, The Lost Grove.
  • 2nd Stage (Avant-garde): Lime and Song, I Was a Fool and What I’ve Seen Has Made Me Two Fools, On the Angels, Sermons and Dwellings.
  • 3rd Stage (Civil Poetry): With Shoes On I Have to Die, From One Moment to Another, Poet in the Street, 13 Bands and 48 Stars, Madrid, Capital of Glory.
  • 4th Stage (Exile): Between the Carnation and the Sword, High Tide, Return of the Living Distant, Ora Marítima, Ballads and Songs of Panama, A Cantata (subtitled “Paint Line and Color”), Verses of John Baker, Rome, Danger for Walkers, The 8 Names of Picasso, Dialogue of Venus and Priapus.

Dámaso Alonso

  • 1st Stage (Pure Poetry): Poetic Cigarillos, Poemillas of the City, The Wind and Verse.
  • 2nd Stage (Existential Poetry): Children of Wrath, Dark Story, Man and God, Doubt and Love about the Supreme Being.

Gerardo Diego

  • Avant-garde Creation: Image, Manual of Foams, Fable of Equis and Zeda.
  • Traditional Creation: Ballads of the Bride, Soria, Soria Succeeded, Love Alone, Violante Sonnets, Love Poetry, My Santander, My Cradle, My Word, Chopin Nocturnes, Lark of Truth, Via Crucis, Angels of Compostela, Human Verses, Divine Verses, Incomplete Biography, Landscape with Figures, Fate and Death.

Federico García Lorca

  • The Days of Youth: Impressions and Landscapes, Book of Poems.
  • The Time of Fulfillment: Poem of the Deep Song, First Song, Songs, Gypsy Ballads, Poet in New York, Divan of Tamarit, Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías, 6 Galician Poems, Sonnets of Dark Love.

Vicente Aleixandre

  • 1st Period (Cosmic and Symbolic Style, Fully Surreal): Scope, Passion of the Earth, Swords Like Lips, Destruction or Love, World Alone, Shadow of Paradise, General Ballads of the Civil War, Last Born.
  • 2nd Period (Historical or Realistic Style): History of the Heart, In a Vast Domain, Named Portraits, Poems of Consummation, Dialogues of Knowledge.

Luis Cernuda

  • 1st Stage (Pure Poetry): Profile of the Air, Eclogue, Elegy, Ode.
  • 2nd Stage (Surreal): A River, a Love, Forbidden Pleasures, Where Oblivion Dwells, Invocations.
  • 3rd Stage (Exile): The Clouds, Like One Who Waits for the Dawn, Living Without Being Alive, With the Hours Counted, Desolation of the Chimera, Ocnos, Variations on a Mexican Theme, Contemporary Spanish Poetry, Poetry and Literature.

Emilio Prados

  • Pure Poetry: Time, Songs of the Lighthouse Keeper, Swimmer with No Sky, Return, The Mystery of Water, Memoirs of Poetry, Body Pursued.
  • Surreal: Portraits, The Captive Voice, Walking, Walking Around the World, The Earth.
  • Social: Songbook of Bread and Fish, October Crying, Crying Blood, Songbook for the Fighters.
  • Exile: Minimum Destiny, Enclosed Garden, Natural River, Sleep Circumcision, The Written Stone, Signs of Being, Citation Without Limits.

Manuel Altolaguirre

Invited Islands and Other Poems, Example, Poetry, Solitudes Together, The Slow Release, Invited Islands, End of a Love, Poetry in America.