Diario de un Poeta Recién Casado / Diary of a Newlywed Poet
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Autor:
Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón
Country:
Spain (ES)
Book Theme:
Classic novels and Authors representing your country culture
Publisher:
Austral
Publishing Year:
2021
He studied at the University of Seville, but influenced by Rubén Darío and other French symbolists, he abandoned his studies in Law and Painting to devote himself to literature. He travelled to France and the United States, where he married Zenobia Camprubí in 1916.
In 1936, at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he went into exile in the United States, Cuba and Puerto Rico, where he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1956.
His poetic career is divided into three stages:
Sensitive stage (1898-1915): marked by the influence of Bécquer, Symbolism and Modernism.
Intellectual stage (1916-1936): discovery of the sea as a transcendent motif. The sea symbolises life, solitude, joy, the eternal present time.
True stage (1937-1958): everything written during his American exile.
National Award for Children’s and Young People’s
Abstract
This work consists of 243 poems in verse and prose, a lyrical manifestation of the author’s life experiences in 1916 on his honeymoon and as a newlywed to Zenobia, a cultured and intelligent young woman with whom he would spend the rest of his life. Before leaving for America, the poet had lived between Madrid and his hometown, Moguer, and had already published some of his most important books.
Juan Ramón Jiménez fell in love with Zenobia and after a complicated courtship with many setbacks, they decided to embark in January 1916 for America, where they married. The wedding took place on March 2 in a Catholic church in New York and the couple spent three months visiting important American cities. The poet wrote in a diary the sea voyage and his impressions of New York and other places they visited.
