A Longing for the Light (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Vicente Aleixandre
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, Psychology or psychologists, Poetry or poets, Dreams, Civil wars, Spain or Spanish people, Universe, Light, Psychotherapy or psychotherapists
Critical Evaluation:
The poetry of Vicente Aleixandre, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1977, became more accessible to the English-speaking readership with the publication of A Longing for the Light, a collection of translations from the Spanish by editor Lewis Hyde and fourteen other hands. Most of the poems in the English-language collection were initially selected by Aleixandre, and they exemplify some of the best and most representative works of Aleixandre’s career to 1979. The title is a translation of a phrase that Aleixandre used to characterize his...
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