Aleixandre, Vicente - Arthur Terry (essay date 1975)
Arthur Terry (essay date 1975)
SOURCE: "Kinds of Knowing," in The Times Literary Supplement, No. 3,820, May 23, 1975, p. 559.
[An English educator and critic, Terry has published studies of the Spanish poets Joan Maragall and Antonio Machado and is the author of Catalan Literature (1972) and coauthor of Introduccion a la lengua y la literatura catalanas (1977). In the following review, he finds that in Diálogos del conocimiento, Aleixandre has continued to develop the style and insights of his poetry.]
Vicente Aleixandre's most recent book of poems [Diálogos del conocimiento] is one of his best, and unmistakably different from any of the others. This is an unusual and gratifying thing to be able to say of a poet in his late seventies who for many years has been regarded as a master by younger generations of Spanish poets. His Obras completas, published seven years ago, seemed at the time to round off...
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