biography
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Valverde, José María
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pronunciation:
[valvairday]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1926– )
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Valencia de Alcántara, Cáceres, W Spain. He was a poet of love, serenity, and religion, which he treats with ironic detachment. He belonged to the Juventud Creadora group of poets, and contributed to the reviews Garcilaso and Mensaje. After teaching appointments in the universities of Rome and Barcelona, he emigrated for political reasons and taught literature in North America; some of his more interesting poems deal with this occupation. His first book of poems was Hombre de Dios (1947). His second collection, La espera (1949), won the Primo de Rivera Prize. The poems of his middle age became more rueful and less self-centred. Enseñanzas de la edad: poesía 1945–1970 (Barcelona, 1971) includes all of his earlier work that he wished to preserve and a new collection called Años inciertos. His style is direct and even colloquial at times. The tone is meditative, and the content rarely deviates from the existential search for God, and the human condition in a strange world. He has translated Hölderlin. His writings on literature include Guillermo de Humboldt y la filosofía del lenguaje and La literatura de Hispanoamérica (Barcelona, 1977). |
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