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Antología poética
Considerada por muchos de sus contemporáneos un aspecto secundario de su obra, con el paso de los años la poesía de Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) viene siendo objeto de una valoración cada vez mayor, de forma que hoy en día para muchos iguala y aun sobrepasa en estatura a su obra filosófica y narrativa. Muestra significativa de la fecunda, aunque tardía, poesía unamuniana, la presente ANTOLOGÍA POÉTICA, preparada y prologada por José María Valverde, reúne más de ciento treinta composiciones que abarcan toda su trayectoria en el campo de la lírica.
- GenresPoetry
144 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1942
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About the author
Miguel de Unamuno
908 books1,084 followersMiguel de Unamuno y Jugo was born in the medieval centre of Bilbao, Basque Country, the son of Félix de Unamuno and Salomé Jugo. As a young man, he was interested in the Basque language, and competed for a teaching position in the Instituto de Bilbao, against Sabino Arana. The contest was finally won by the Basque scholar Resurrección María de Azcue.
Unamuno worked in all major genres: the essay, the novel, poetry and theatre, and, as a modernist, contributed greatly to dissolving the boundaries between genres. There is some debate as to whether Unamuno was in fact a member of the Generation of '98 (an ex post facto literary group of Spanish intellectuals and philosophers that was the creation of José Martínez Ruiz — a group that includes Antonio Machado, Azorín, Pío Baroja, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Ramiro de Maeztu and Ángel Ganivet, among others).
In addition to his writing, Unamuno played an important role in the intellectual life of Spain. He served as rector of the University of Salamanca for two periods: from 1900 to 1924 and 1930 to 1936, during a time of great social and political upheaval. Unamuno was removed from his post by the government in 1924, to the protest of other Spanish intellectuals. He lived in exile until 1930, first banned to Fuerteventura (Canary Islands), from where he escaped to France. Unamuno returned after the fall of General Primo de Rivera's dictatorship and took up his rectorship again. It is said in Salamanca that the day he returned to the University, Unamuno began his lecture by saying "As we were saying yesterday, ...", as Fray Luis de León had done in the same place four centuries before, as though he had not been absent at all. After the fall of Rivera's dictatorship, Spain embarked on its second Republic, a short-lived attempt by the people of Spain to take democratic control of their own country. He was a candidate for the small intellectual party Al Servicio de la República.
The burgeoning Republic was eventually squashed when a military coup headed by General Francisco Franco caused the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Having begun his literary career as an internationalist, Unamuno gradually became a convinced Spanish nationalist, feeling that Spain's essential qualities would be destroyed if influenced too much by outside forces. Thus for a brief period he actually welcomed Franco's revolt as necessary to rescue Spain from radical influence. However, the harsh tactics employed by the Francoists in the struggle against their republican opponents caused him to oppose both the Republic and Franco.
As a result of his opposition to Franco, Unamuno was effectively removed for a second time from his University post. Also, in 1936 Unamuno had a brief public quarrel with the Nationalist general Millán Astray at the University in which he denounced both Astray and elements of the Francoist movement. He called the battle cry of the rightist Falange movement—"Long live death!"—repellent and suggested Astray wanted to see Spain crippled. One historian notes that his address was a "remarkable act of moral courage" and that he risked being lynched on the spot. Shortly afterwards, he was placed under house arrest, where he remained, broken-hearted, until his death ten weeks later.[1]
Unamuno worked in all major genres: the essay, the novel, poetry and theatre, and, as a modernist, contributed greatly to dissolving the boundaries between genres. There is some debate as to whether Unamuno was in fact a member of the Generation of '98 (an ex post facto literary group of Spanish intellectuals and philosophers that was the creation of José Martínez Ruiz — a group that includes Antonio Machado, Azorín, Pío Baroja, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Ramiro de Maeztu and Ángel Ganivet, among others).
In addition to his writing, Unamuno played an important role in the intellectual life of Spain. He served as rector of the University of Salamanca for two periods: from 1900 to 1924 and 1930 to 1936, during a time of great social and political upheaval. Unamuno was removed from his post by the government in 1924, to the protest of other Spanish intellectuals. He lived in exile until 1930, first banned to Fuerteventura (Canary Islands), from where he escaped to France. Unamuno returned after the fall of General Primo de Rivera's dictatorship and took up his rectorship again. It is said in Salamanca that the day he returned to the University, Unamuno began his lecture by saying "As we were saying yesterday, ...", as Fray Luis de León had done in the same place four centuries before, as though he had not been absent at all. After the fall of Rivera's dictatorship, Spain embarked on its second Republic, a short-lived attempt by the people of Spain to take democratic control of their own country. He was a candidate for the small intellectual party Al Servicio de la República.
The burgeoning Republic was eventually squashed when a military coup headed by General Francisco Franco caused the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Having begun his literary career as an internationalist, Unamuno gradually became a convinced Spanish nationalist, feeling that Spain's essential qualities would be destroyed if influenced too much by outside forces. Thus for a brief period he actually welcomed Franco's revolt as necessary to rescue Spain from radical influence. However, the harsh tactics employed by the Francoists in the struggle against their republican opponents caused him to oppose both the Republic and Franco.
As a result of his opposition to Franco, Unamuno was effectively removed for a second time from his University post. Also, in 1936 Unamuno had a brief public quarrel with the Nationalist general Millán Astray at the University in which he denounced both Astray and elements of the Francoist movement. He called the battle cry of the rightist Falange movement—"Long live death!"—repellent and suggested Astray wanted to see Spain crippled. One historian notes that his address was a "remarkable act of moral courage" and that he risked being lynched on the spot. Shortly afterwards, he was placed under house arrest, where he remained, broken-hearted, until his death ten weeks later.[1]
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September 4, 2021
"OLHOS DE ANOITECER
Olhos de anoitecer os de tua cara
e luz de lua cheia dentro deles,
lume de argênteas centelhas ao vê-los
quando entre as sombras alvos sulcos ara.
Ao suave fulgor da lua clara
de teus olhos, parecem teus cabelos
em tua fronte misteriosos selos
que selam o segredo que te ampara.
E além, mais dentro, no fechado limbo
do coração, um botão donde brote
a flor de imensidão, rubro corimbo
de estrelas que o Destino pôs por lote
em tua senda, dando-lhes por nimbo
a névoa do mistério que é teu dote."
Bilbau, IX-1910
Olhos de anoitecer os de tua cara
e luz de lua cheia dentro deles,
lume de argênteas centelhas ao vê-los
quando entre as sombras alvos sulcos ara.
Ao suave fulgor da lua clara
de teus olhos, parecem teus cabelos
em tua fronte misteriosos selos
que selam o segredo que te ampara.
E além, mais dentro, no fechado limbo
do coração, um botão donde brote
a flor de imensidão, rubro corimbo
de estrelas que o Destino pôs por lote
em tua senda, dando-lhes por nimbo
a névoa do mistério que é teu dote."
Bilbau, IX-1910
April 22, 2025
demasiados poemas religiosos, los existenciales mis favoritos. Me siento más cercano a la religión de alguna forma, vi una pintura de Jesús crucificado y sentí demasiado mirandola, creo que ese es el poder de la buena poesía.
February 27, 2024
Me sorprendió mucho Unamuno. No conocía su cercanía a Dios y por sobre todo, la devoción con la que compone sus versos. Creo que es una antología muy interesante, y no puedo más que estar de acuerdo cuando dice que la obra poética toma poco a poco valor. Los poemas van desde religiosos, sobre España (como los de Machado), hasta la muerte y la vida en su contraste. Me parece un libro muy bueno y me confirma que Unamuno era un hombre que pulió su oficio de poeta. No son versos sueltos de alguien que improvisa, se nota que hay trabajo detrás y eso se valora. Que un autor vinculado tanto con la narrativa tenga una obra poética buena, se agradece.
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August 26, 2021¿no te acuerdas, mi amor, que te decía
como en mi seno luchan
por darse a luz oscuros pensamientos
sin voz y sin figura?
son mis dolores, hijos desdichados
que mueren en la cuna,
cuando no logran que de fuera a ellos
otros acudan
y los llamen, los saquen, los abracen,
con ellos se confundan,
y en dolorosa comunión besándose
frutos de amor produzcan
Pablo, me muero cada día
y cada día resucito,
más, ¡ay de la pobre alma mía,
que va a perderse en lo infinito!
hay que recoger la vida
que otra vez ya no vendrá,
como se nos va escondida
del más aquí al más allá.
como en mi seno luchan
por darse a luz oscuros pensamientos
sin voz y sin figura?
son mis dolores, hijos desdichados
que mueren en la cuna,
cuando no logran que de fuera a ellos
otros acudan
y los llamen, los saquen, los abracen,
con ellos se confundan,
y en dolorosa comunión besándose
frutos de amor produzcan
Pablo, me muero cada día
y cada día resucito,
más, ¡ay de la pobre alma mía,
que va a perderse en lo infinito!
hay que recoger la vida
que otra vez ya no vendrá,
como se nos va escondida
del más aquí al más allá.
January 20, 2021
«”Amarás a tu prójimo como a ti mismo”;
pero a mí mismo ¿cómo me amaré?
Es llevarme de un abismo a otro abismo,
donde tengo que tener... qué?».
pero a mí mismo ¿cómo me amaré?
Es llevarme de un abismo a otro abismo,
donde tengo que tener... qué?».
December 3, 2018
I fell in love with Unamuno and his poetry when I was in high school, so I was a bit disappointed to find that his hold on me had loosened since then. To his detriment and his appeal, he is obsessed with his Christianity and his own religious failings. He loves God and christinity but feels disconnected from both. Most of his poems reflect this, as he alternately mourns his failings and praises God despite them. He is a true Christian Existentialist in a sense, finding life to be meaningless given the impossible task of being a believer, but choosing to carry on nonetheless, creating meaning himself, or at least imbuing his faith with meaning that he doesn't feel is naturally there. Choosing to speak to God even if He never speaks back.
It is a laudable, if not a bit depressing, theme, but it does get a bit old when almost every single poem in this anthology goes over the same topic.
Poetically speaking, or aesthetically speaking, Unamuno is a master of his language, though his choices end up repeating themselves as they struggle to find new ways to describe the same set of themes and problems. He is also an old fashioned poet in some ways, still holding to a vision of poetic structure and rhyme that was passing out of fashion while he was still clutching to it. Not much experimentation, though that is a matter of personal taste surely.
It is a laudable, if not a bit depressing, theme, but it does get a bit old when almost every single poem in this anthology goes over the same topic.
Poetically speaking, or aesthetically speaking, Unamuno is a master of his language, though his choices end up repeating themselves as they struggle to find new ways to describe the same set of themes and problems. He is also an old fashioned poet in some ways, still holding to a vision of poetic structure and rhyme that was passing out of fashion while he was still clutching to it. Not much experimentation, though that is a matter of personal taste surely.
January 10, 2025
fékk þessa í kveðjugjöf frá vinkonu<33 mjög falleg ljóð og góður höfundur, mitt uppáhalds:
¿Qué es tu vida, alma mía? , ¿cuál tu pago?
¡lluvia en el lago!
¿Qué es tu vida, alma mía, tu costumbre?
¡viento en la cumbre!
¿Cómo tu vida, mi alma, se renueva?,
¡sombra en la cueva!
¡lluvia en el lago!,
¡viento en la cumbre!,
¡sombra en la cueva!
Lágrimas es la lluvia desde el cielo,
y es el viento sollozo sin partida,
pasar la sombra sin ningún consuelo,
y lluvia, y sombra y viento hacen la vida.
(tárin eru regnið frá himninum
og vindurinn er grátur án brottfarar,
fer í gegnum skuggann án huggunar
og rigning, og skuggi, og vindur skapa lífið)
¿Qué es tu vida, alma mía? , ¿cuál tu pago?
¡lluvia en el lago!
¿Qué es tu vida, alma mía, tu costumbre?
¡viento en la cumbre!
¿Cómo tu vida, mi alma, se renueva?,
¡sombra en la cueva!
¡lluvia en el lago!,
¡viento en la cumbre!,
¡sombra en la cueva!
Lágrimas es la lluvia desde el cielo,
y es el viento sollozo sin partida,
pasar la sombra sin ningún consuelo,
y lluvia, y sombra y viento hacen la vida.
(tárin eru regnið frá himninum
og vindurinn er grátur án brottfarar,
fer í gegnum skuggann án huggunar
og rigning, og skuggi, og vindur skapa lífið)
May 30, 2021
"Recordando esperanzas, que es lo mismo // que espera de recuerdos..."
"Los días que se fueron, ¿dónde han ido? // De aquel que fui, ¿qué ha sido?"
"No escribo por pasar el rato // sino la eternidad..."
"Vida que es llama, que en el tiempo vive // y en ondas, como el río, se sucede."
"Los días que se fueron, ¿dónde han ido? // De aquel que fui, ¿qué ha sido?"
"No escribo por pasar el rato // sino la eternidad..."
"Vida que es llama, que en el tiempo vive // y en ondas, como el río, se sucede."
March 13, 2017
Miguel de Unamuno plasma sus inquietudes personales en todas sus obras, sean ensayos, narrativa o poesía, como en este caso. Pesa sobre él la comparación con otros poetas de la época, dado que su poesía bebe de modelos más clásicos, incluyendo numerosas odas localistas y un sentir religioso muy presente, alejado de la tendencia modernista o vanguardista. Con todo, merece la pena conocer este aspecto más desconocido de este insigne autor.
September 24, 2019
En mi opinión plenamente subjetiva, Miguel de Unamuno es el ejemplo de poesía Rica en leer, disfrutar y pensar. Aborda temas profundos. Sus poemas quedan saboreados en la mente por algún tiempo después de ser leídos. Vaya, son poemas y sonetos para pensar.
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