Unceasing Lightning

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Dedalus, 1986 - Spanish poetry - 52 pages

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El Rayo Que No Cesa
Miguel Hernández
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Alicante almond amorous Antonio Machado beach to sand blood bones breast bull Calderón Cervantes cesa cheek Chilean clay will turn Colegio de Santo crabapple CRUZ death Delia earth El rayo que elegy eyes fears foot frothy furrow garden Góngora goodbye grief grimed and cut heart Hernández joined Hernández's poetry hurricane idolize Jesuits José JOSEFINA MANRESA journey to Madrid JUAN RAMÓN JIMÉNEZ kiss lemon literary long slow tongue Lope love for everything Machado and Jiménez MANUEL ALTOLAGUIRRE Marín Maruca metal MICHAEL SMITH Miguel Hernández Moons nard Pablo Neruda passion Perito en lunas poems poppies prison pure que no cesa Quevedo Rain-laden Ramón Sijé rayo recall Santo Domingo sea from beach shadowy Sijé's snow sonnets soul Spain Spanish baroque poet Spanish classics Spanish contemporaries stone surrealism sword tasted the flower Thistles and pain torment town of Orihuela UNCEASING LIGHTNING Vicente Aleixandre Viento del pueblo voice weeping wound wrote

About the author (1986)

Little educated, Hernandez studiously imitated the style of Luis de Gongora in his first volume of poetry, published in 1933. In his best volume, The Unending Lightning (1936), he found his own voice, expressing powerful emotion in classical sonnet form. After fighting for the republic during the civil war, Hernandez was imprisoned in a concentration camp, where he died of tuberculosis at age 32 in spite of international protests for his freedom. The Songbook of Absences (1938--41), written during his years as a political prisoner, is a painful record of his suffering on separation from his wife, his sorrow at the death of his son, and his yearning for the simple country life of his youth.

Bibliographic information

TitleUnceasing Lightning
G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
AuthorMiguel Hernández
ContributorMichael Smith
PublisherDedalus, 1986
Original fromthe University of California
DigitizedAug 31, 2011
ISBN0948268174, 9780948268175
Length52 pages
  
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