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La obra de Pedro Salinas aparece hoy como uno de los momentos culminantes de la lírica del siglo XX. Este volumen, al cuidado de su hija, se publicó por primera vez en 1981 y es, hasta la fecha, la edición que, a falta de una definitiva, puede considerarse canónica de la obra completa del poeta del 27
«Cuando una poesía está escrita se termina, pero no acaba; empieza, busca otra en sí misma, en el autor, en el lector, en el silencio.»
Pedro Salinas
«Cuando una poesía está escrita se termina, pero no acaba; empieza, busca otra en sí misma, en el autor, en el lector, en el silencio.»
Pedro Salinas
960 pages, Paperback
First published November 30, 2000
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Pedro Salinas
174 books84 followersPedro Salinas y Serrano (27 November 1891 – 4 December 1951) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27, as well as a university teacher, scholar and literary critic. In 1937, he delivered the Turnbull lectures at Johns Hopkins University. These were later published under the title Reality and the Poet in Spanish Poetry.
e was born in Madrid in the Calle de Toledo, 1891, in a house very close to the San Isidro church/cathedral. Salinas lived his early years in the heart of the city and went to school first in the Colegio Hispano-Francés and then in the Instituto Nacional de Segunda Enseñanza, both close by the church. His father, a cloth-merchant, died in 1899. He began to study Law at the Universidad central in 1908 and in 1910 started to study History concurrently. He graduated successfully in both courses in 1913. During his undergraduate years, he began to write and publish poems in small circulation journals such as Prometeo.[2] In 1914 he became the Spanish lector at the Collège de Sorbonne in the University of Paris until 1917, when he received his Doctorate. He had married Margarita Bonmarti, a Spanish girl of Algerian descent whom he had met on his summer holidays in Santa Pola, Alicante, in December 1915. She had been born in 1884. They had two children, Soledad (always referred to as Solita) born in 1920 and Jaime born in 1925. His academic life seemed to act as a model for his slightly younger contemporary Jorge Guillén with whom he struck up a friendship in 1920.
In 1918 he was appointed Professor of Spanish Language and Literature at the University of Seville and he held the post until 1928, although he spent 1922-23 as lector at the University of Cambridge.[3] One of his students in Seville was Luis Cernuda in the academic year 1919-20, to whom he gave special encouragement. He urged him to read modern French literature, in particular André Gide and the poetry of Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Rimbaud.[4] He continued to publish poems in magazines such as España and La Pluma. In vacations, he spent time as a lecturer at the Residencia de Estudiantes, where he got to know the leading lights of his generation, such as García Lorca and Rafael Alberti. In April 1926, he was present at the gathering in Madrid where the first plans to celebrate the tercentenary of Góngora's death were laid. Salinas was to edit the volume devoted to the sonnets: a project that never came to fruition. While at Cambridge, his translation of the first two volumes and part of the third of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time into Spanish was published. And in 1925, his modernised version of El Poema de Mío Cid was published by Revista de Occidente.
In 1928 he became a researcher at the Centro de Estudios Históricos in Madrid before becoming director of studies for foreigners at the University of Madrid.[6] In 1930, he became a professor of Spanish literature at Madrid and doubled up as originator, organiser and secretary-general of the International Summer School of Santander between 1933 and 1936. This school was set up to accommodate 200 Spanish students (approximately 4 from each of the established universities in Spain) and an international teaching staff.
On 8 March 1933, he was present at the premiere in Madrid of García Lorca's play Bodas de sangre. In August 1933, he was able to host performances at the Magdalena Palace in Santander by the travelling theatre company La Barraca that Lorca led. On 20 April 1936, he attended the launch party in Madrid for Luis Cernuda's new collection La realidad y el deseo.[9] and on 12 July he was present at a party in Madrid that took place just before García Lorca departed to Granada for the last time before his murder. It was there that Lorca read his new play La casa de Bernarda Alba for the last time.
On 31 August 1936, shortly after the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, he moved to the USA, to take up the position of the Mary Whiton Calkins professor at Wellesley Coll
e was born in Madrid in the Calle de Toledo, 1891, in a house very close to the San Isidro church/cathedral. Salinas lived his early years in the heart of the city and went to school first in the Colegio Hispano-Francés and then in the Instituto Nacional de Segunda Enseñanza, both close by the church. His father, a cloth-merchant, died in 1899. He began to study Law at the Universidad central in 1908 and in 1910 started to study History concurrently. He graduated successfully in both courses in 1913. During his undergraduate years, he began to write and publish poems in small circulation journals such as Prometeo.[2] In 1914 he became the Spanish lector at the Collège de Sorbonne in the University of Paris until 1917, when he received his Doctorate. He had married Margarita Bonmarti, a Spanish girl of Algerian descent whom he had met on his summer holidays in Santa Pola, Alicante, in December 1915. She had been born in 1884. They had two children, Soledad (always referred to as Solita) born in 1920 and Jaime born in 1925. His academic life seemed to act as a model for his slightly younger contemporary Jorge Guillén with whom he struck up a friendship in 1920.
In 1918 he was appointed Professor of Spanish Language and Literature at the University of Seville and he held the post until 1928, although he spent 1922-23 as lector at the University of Cambridge.[3] One of his students in Seville was Luis Cernuda in the academic year 1919-20, to whom he gave special encouragement. He urged him to read modern French literature, in particular André Gide and the poetry of Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Rimbaud.[4] He continued to publish poems in magazines such as España and La Pluma. In vacations, he spent time as a lecturer at the Residencia de Estudiantes, where he got to know the leading lights of his generation, such as García Lorca and Rafael Alberti. In April 1926, he was present at the gathering in Madrid where the first plans to celebrate the tercentenary of Góngora's death were laid. Salinas was to edit the volume devoted to the sonnets: a project that never came to fruition. While at Cambridge, his translation of the first two volumes and part of the third of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time into Spanish was published. And in 1925, his modernised version of El Poema de Mío Cid was published by Revista de Occidente.
In 1928 he became a researcher at the Centro de Estudios Históricos in Madrid before becoming director of studies for foreigners at the University of Madrid.[6] In 1930, he became a professor of Spanish literature at Madrid and doubled up as originator, organiser and secretary-general of the International Summer School of Santander between 1933 and 1936. This school was set up to accommodate 200 Spanish students (approximately 4 from each of the established universities in Spain) and an international teaching staff.
On 8 March 1933, he was present at the premiere in Madrid of García Lorca's play Bodas de sangre. In August 1933, he was able to host performances at the Magdalena Palace in Santander by the travelling theatre company La Barraca that Lorca led. On 20 April 1936, he attended the launch party in Madrid for Luis Cernuda's new collection La realidad y el deseo.[9] and on 12 July he was present at a party in Madrid that took place just before García Lorca departed to Granada for the last time before his murder. It was there that Lorca read his new play La casa de Bernarda Alba for the last time.
On 31 August 1936, shortly after the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, he moved to the USA, to take up the position of the Mary Whiton Calkins professor at Wellesley Coll
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July 16, 2016
Uno de mis básicos. Qué manera de hacer belleza con las palabras, de que se te claven en el corazón. Lo descubrí siendo muy joven y me ha acompañado desde entonces. Totalmente recomendado, Pedro Salinas es un poeta soberbio.
July 29, 2022
Vaig comprar-me el llibre a una llibreria de segona ma per fer-me l’alternativa i em va acabar agradant bastant, resulta que en Pedro és un poeta magnífic que escriu des del cor.
No li he posat 5 estrelles perquè soc bastant cateta i hi havia poemes que no entenia gaire bé…
No li he posat 5 estrelles perquè soc bastant cateta i hi havia poemes que no entenia gaire bé…
September 17, 2018
Tu recuerdo eres tú misma.
Ahora ya puedo olvidarte
porque estás aquí, a mi lado.
Ahora ya puedo olvidarte
porque estás aquí, a mi lado.
October 30, 2025
¡qué alegria mas alta vivir en los pronombres! - salinas I love u
February 11, 2010
Los títulos de sus libros, en sí, son ya un poema: La Voz a Ti Debida, Razón de Amor. Amoroso poeta español, importante integrante de mi grupo favorito, La Generación del 27 me deja como lección que la poesía es sublime, está en el aire y se huele con el corazón. Aaaahhhh!!!!
June 23, 2025
Cuando Salinas dijo «el sol nace para todos, / y en nadie termina» 🫴🤍
June 15, 2022
2,8
La verdad, Salinas tiene una poesía muy gongorina que, en cambio, en Cernuda me llegaba al corazón, y aquí encuentro poemas que son irregulares de calidad. Tiene una poesía mucho más abstracta, más vacía en cuanto a sentimientos en flor como en Cernuda, más técnica incluso, más fría. No me ha acabado de convencer.
La verdad, Salinas tiene una poesía muy gongorina que, en cambio, en Cernuda me llegaba al corazón, y aquí encuentro poemas que son irregulares de calidad. Tiene una poesía mucho más abstracta, más vacía en cuanto a sentimientos en flor como en Cernuda, más técnica incluso, más fría. No me ha acabado de convencer.
July 18, 2012
Esta libro se antoja interesante no sólo para estudio de eruditos y gozo de admiradores de Salinas, sino también por abrir otra puerta a una inspiración diferente en nuestro panorama poético, que se encuentra polarizado entre la cotidianidad y la fantasía.
May 15, 2020
Imprescindible.... y lleno de magia sus versos.
June 1, 2020
Amo la poesía de Pedro Salinas.
September 12, 2020
Siempre vuelvo a él.
January 23, 2024
"Escalera de noche
se confunde la vida con más sombra,
la sombra con el alma y esta nada
con otra?
Otra. ¿Con otra qué?
¿Otra sombra? ¿Otra nada?
Otra otra; no sé más. ¡Y cuánto es otra!
Otra es seguir: vivir es otra, y otra."
"Porque todo acaba en a."
se confunde la vida con más sombra,
la sombra con el alma y esta nada
con otra?
Otra. ¿Con otra qué?
¿Otra sombra? ¿Otra nada?
Otra otra; no sé más. ¡Y cuánto es otra!
Otra es seguir: vivir es otra, y otra."
"Porque todo acaba en a."
October 20, 2018
Chi ama la poesia non può non leggere Salinas
December 23, 2023
“¡Si me llamaras, sí,
si me llamaras”.
si me llamaras”.
August 12, 2025
definitivamente volvería a los poemas de La voz a tí debida. algunos son mis fav.
"No quiero que te vayas dolor..
"No quiero que te vayas dolor..
August 26, 2025
“Y mientras no vengas tú
yo me quedaré en la orilla
de los vuelos, de los sueños,
de las estelas, inmóvil.
Porque sé que adonde estuve
ni alas, ni ruedas, ni velas
llevan.
Todas van extraviadas.
Porque sé que adonde estuve
sólo
se va contigo, por ti”.
yo me quedaré en la orilla
de los vuelos, de los sueños,
de las estelas, inmóvil.
Porque sé que adonde estuve
ni alas, ni ruedas, ni velas
llevan.
Todas van extraviadas.
Porque sé que adonde estuve
sólo
se va contigo, por ti”.
October 19, 2024
La mejor poesía jamás escrita.
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