Vicente Aleixandre
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Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo (April 26, 1898 – December 14, 1984) Spanish poet, born in Sevilla. Nobel Prize laureate for Literature in 1977. He died in Madrid.
Aleixandre's early poetry, which he wrote chiefly in free verse, is highly surrealistic. It also praises the beauty of nature by using symbols that represent the earth and the sea. Many of Aleixandre's early poems are filled with sadness. They reflect his feeling that people have lost the passion and free spirit that he saw in nature. His early collections of poetry include Passion of the Earth (1935) and Destruction or Love (1933).
In Shadow of Paradise (1944), Aleixandre began to concentrate on such themes a fellowship, friendliness, and spiritual unity. His later books of poetry include History of the Heart (1954) and In a Vast Dominion (1962).
Aleixandre was born in Seville, Spain, and studied law at the University of Madrid. Selections of his work were translated into English in Twenty Poems of Vicente Aleixandre (1977).
References
- World Book encyclopedia 1988.
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