Guillén, Eliot, Valéry, Ortega, and the Dehumanization of Poetry

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.63487/reo.633

Keywords:

Guillén, Ortega y Gasset, Valéry, Eliot, dehumanization, pure poetry, tradition, literacy criticism

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyse the change in the poetic thought of Jorge Guillén between the 1920s and the 1950s, based on the references in his literary criticism of three relevant authors: José Ortega y Gasset, Paul Valéry y T. S. Eliot. According to the evolution of his ideology, Guillén’s point of view about those authors changes as shown in his writings of the 1920s and in his Language and Poetry, the essay that compiles the lectures he gave from the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship in Harvard University in the academic year 1957-58.

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Author Biography

Margarita Garbisu Buesa, Universidad San Pablo CEU

She holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Philology from the University of Deusto, has been a visiting professor at King’s College London, and is currently a professor of Contemporary World Literature at San Pablo CEU University. Her research focuses on 20th-century Spanish literature. Notable among her publications are Spanish Purism and Italian Hermeticism: Similarities and Differences in Jorge Guillén and Giuseppe Ungaretti (2002), “The Spanish Literary Presence in the Italian Press of the 1920s and 1930s” (2000), “Jorge Guillén and Giuseppe Ungaretti: A Common Point—Paul Valéry” (2001), “On the Fiftieth Anniversary of André Gide’s Death” (2002), “French Literature in the First Estafeta Literaria” (2004), “1944: La Estafeta Literaria, Nadal, and Laforet” (2004), “Indexes of La Estafeta Literaria (1944–2001)” (2005), and “The Criterion: Its History and Its European Connection to the Revista de Occidente” (2006).

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Published

2006-05-01 — Updated on 2006-05-01

How to Cite

Garbisu Buesa, M. (2006). Guillén, Eliot, Valéry, Ortega, and the Dehumanization of Poetry. Revista De Estudios Orteguianos (Journal of Orteguian Studies), (12/13), 113–129. https://doi.org/10.63487/reo.633

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No. 12/13 (2006)

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Articles