biography
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Felipe Camino, León
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pronunciation:
[feleepay kameenoh
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| male
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| lived:
| (1884–1968)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Tábara, Zamora, NWC Spain. He spent his youth in Salamanca and trained as a pharmacist, practising in Almonacid de Zorita in the Alcarria. He wandered around Africa for a time before settling in Mexico, at the end of the Civil War, in 1939. His tone of prophetic idealism is reminiscent of Walt Whitman, whose work he translated into Spanish. He was later influenced by Surrealism, and then by social commitment to the poor and helpless. To obtain his striking effects he resorted to a brusquely colloquial style in free verse. Versos y oraciones del caminante (1930) marked him out as original, but it was not until El español del éxodo y del llanto (1939) that he emerged as a moving poet of exile, unhappy but convinced of being right. El hacha (1939) railed against the annihilation brought by war, and El gran responsable (1940) and El poeta prometéico (942) involved him further in the lonely struggle to help the underprivileged. He collected his best work in Antología rota, 1920-1947 (1947), following this with El ciervo (1958). |
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