Summary
Juan Ramon Jimenez: Caribbean and Other Poems
The great Andalusian poet Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881-1958) devoted his entire life to poetry, but in a way that will reveal through the entire work the unity of expression, the improvement of poetic knowledge based on aesthetic principles that he advocated and persistently defended to the end. His place in poetry is exceptional precisely because he brought pure poetry to its peak, to the essence of poetry in general. The collections "Diary of a Married Poet", "Eternities", "Smoke and Gold" (1957), "Poems" (1987, bilingual) translated by Nikola Milićević, and "Labyrinth of Light" translated by Jordan Jelic (1997), are better known to a wider audience, along with a collection of shorter poems in prose, i.e. prose entitled "My Gray and I" (Platero i yo). He emigrated after the civil war in Spain. He received the Nobel Prize in 1956.
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