Alfonso Reyes (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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Alfonso Reyes was an essayist, short-story writer, and critic as well as a poet. Indeed, the bulk of the more than twenty volumes of his Obras completas (1955-1967; complete works)—an ongoing project undertaken by the Mexican Fondo de Cultura Económica to make accessible the seemingly inexhaustible archive of manuscripts and papers that he left behind—is criticism rather than poetry. Spanning cultures and disciplines, the breadth of his knowledge was truly astounding. His Grata compañía (1948; pleasing company), for example, includes...
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