The Generation of '27 ( es, Generación del 27) was an influential group of

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s that arose in

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literary circles between 1923 and 1927, essentially out of a shared desire to experience and work with

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forms of art and poetry. Their first formal meeting took place in

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in 1927 to mark the 300th anniversary of the death of the

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poet

Luis de Góngora Luis de Góngora y Argote (born Luis de Argote y Góngora; ; 11 July 1561 – 24 May 1627) was a Spanish Baroque lyric poet and a Catholic priest. Góngora and his lifelong rival, Francisco de Quevedo, are widely considered the most prominent ...

. Writers and

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paid homage at the '' Ateneo de Sevilla'', which retrospectively became the foundational act of the movement.

Terminology

The Generation of '27 has also been called, with lesser success, "Generation of the Dictatorship", "Generation of the Republic", "Generation Guillén-Lorca" (Guillén being its oldest author and Lorca its youngest), "Generation of 1925" (average publishing date of the first book of each author), "Generation of Avant-Gardes", "Generation of Friendship", etc. According to Petersen, "generation group" or a "constellation" are better terms which are not so much historically restricted as "generation".

Aesthetic style

The Generation of '27 cannot be neatly categorized stylistically because of the wide variety of genres and styles cultivated by its members. Some members, such as

Jorge Guillén Jorge Guillén Álvarez (; 18 January 18936 February 1984) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27, a university teacher, a scholar and a literary critic. In 1957-1958, he delivered the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard Un ...

, wrote in a style that has been loosely called jubilant and joyous and celebrated the instant, others, such as

Rafael Alberti Rafael Alberti Merello (16 December 1902 – 28 October 1999) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27. He is considered one of the greatest literary figures of the so-called ''Silver Age'' of Spanish Literature, and he won numero ...

, underwent a poetic evolution that led him from youthful poetry of a more romantic vein to later politically-engaged verses. The group tried to bridge the gap between Spanish popular culture and folklore, classical literary tradition and European

s. It evolved from pure poetry, which emphasized music in poetry, in the vein of

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, to

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, Ultraist and

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, to become influenced by

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and finally to disperse in interior and exterior

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following the

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and

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, which are sometimes gathered by historians under the term of the "

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". The Generation of '27 made a frequent use of visionary images,

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s and the so-called

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, supported by Pablo Neruda.

Members

In a restrictive sense, the Generation of '27 refers to ten authors,

Pedro Salinas Pedro Salinas y Serrano (27 November 1891 – 4 December 1951) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27, as well as a university teacher, scholar and literary critic. In 1937, he delivered the Turnbull lectures at Johns Hopkins ...

Federico García Lorca Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936), known as Federico García Lorca ( ), was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblemat ...

Dámaso Alonso Dámaso Alonso y Fernández de las Redondas (22 October 1898 – 25 January 1990) was a Spanish poet, philologist and literary critic. Though a member of the Generation of '27, his best-known work dates from the 1940s onwards. Early life and ed ...

Gerardo Diego Gerardo Diego Cendoya (October 3, 1896 – July 8, 1987) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27. Diego taught language and literature at institutes of learning in Soria, Gijón, Santander and Madrid. He also acted as litera ...

Luis Cernuda Luis Cernuda Bidón (September 21, 1902 – November 5, 1963) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27. During the Spanish Civil War, in early 1938, he went to the UK to deliver some lectures and this became the start of an exile t ...

Vicente Aleixandre Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo (; 26 April 1898 – 14 December 1984) was a Spanish poet who was born in Seville. Aleixandre received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977 "for a creative poetic writing which illuminates ma ...

Manuel Altolaguirre Manuel Altolaguirre (29 June 1905 – 26 July 1959) was a Spanish poet, an editor, publisher, and printer of poetry, and a member of the Generation of '27. Biography Born in the Andalusia city of Málaga in 1905, Altolaguirre's collaborative poets ...

and

Emilio Prados Emilio Prados (4 March 1899 - 24 April 1962) was a Spanish poet and editor, a member of the Generation of '27. Life Born in the Andalusian city of Málaga in 1899, Prados was offered a place at Madrid's famous Residencia de estudiantes in 1914 ...

. However, many others were in their orbit, some older authors such as Fernando Villalón,

José Moreno Villa José Moreno Villa (16 February 1887, Málaga – 25 April 1955, México) was a Spanish poet and member of the Generation of '27. He was a man of many talents: narrator, essayist, literary critic, artist, painter, columnist, researcher, arc ...

León Felipe León Felipe Camino Galicia (11 April 1884 – 17 September 1968) was an anti-fascist Spanish poet. Biography Felipe was born in Tábara, Zamora, Spain, while his parents were travelling. His father was a public notary and comfortably off. H ...

, and other younger authors such as

Miguel Hernández Miguel Hernández Gilabert (30 October 1910 – 28 March 1942 ) was a 20th-century Spanish-language poet and playwright associated with the Generation of '27 and the Generation of '36 movements. Born and raised in a family of low resources, h ...

. Others have been forgotten by the

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, such as Juan Larrea, Pepe Alameda, Mauricio Bacarisse,

Juan José Domenchina Juan José Domenchina Moreu (18 May 1898 – 27 October 1959) was a Spanish poet and literary critic from the "Generation of '27". Life Juan José Domenchina was born in Madrid in 1898. He trained as a teacher but never taught. His early poetry ...

, José María Hinojosa,

José Bergamín José Bergamín Gutiérrez ( Madrid, 1895 – Hondarribia, 28 August 1983) was a Spanish writer, essayist, poet, and playwright. His father served as president of the canton of Málaga; his mother was a Catholic. Bergamín was influenced by both ...

or Juan Gil-Albert. There is also the "Other generation of '27", a term coined by

José López Rubio José López Rubio y Herreros (13 December 1903 in Motril, Granada Province – 2 March 1996) was a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, theatre historian and humorist. Rubio y Herreros worked in Hollywood as a songwriter for ...

, formed by himself and humorist disciples of

Ramón Gómez de la Serna Ramón Gómez de la Serna y Puig (3 July 1888 in Madrid – 13 January 1963 in Buenos Aires) was a Spanish writer, dramatist and avant-garde agitator. He strongly influenced surrealist film maker Luis Buñuel. Ramón Gómez de la Serna was esp ...

, including:

Enrique Jardiel Poncela Enrique Jardiel Poncela (15 October 1901 – 18 February 1952) was a Spanish playwright and novelist who wrote mostly humorous works. In 1932-33 and 1934 he was called to Hollywood to help with the Spanish-language versions shot in parallel to ...

Edgar Neville Edgar Neville Romrée, Count of Berlanga de Duero (28 December 1899 – 23 April 1967) was a Spanish playwright and film director, a member of the "other" Generation of '27. Biography Neville was born in Madrid but lived in Hollywood in the 19 ...

Miguel Mihura Miguel Mihura Santos (21 July 1905, in Madrid – 27 October 1977) was a Spanish playwright. He is best known for his comedy '' Tres sombreros de copa'' (1952), a work of absurd humor that predates similar works by Beckett or Ionesco and t ...

and

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, "Tono", writers who would integrate after the

(1936–39) the editing board of ''La Codorniz''. Furthermore, the Generation of '27, as clearly reflected in the literary press of the period, was not exclusively restricted to poets, including artists such as

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, the caricaturist K-Hito, the

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painters

Salvador Dalí Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol (; ; ; 11 May 190423 January 1989) was a Spanish Surrealism, surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarr ...

and

Óscar Domínguez Óscar M. Domínguez (3 January 1906 – 31 December 1957) was a Spanish surrealist painter. Biography Born in San Cristóbal de La Laguna on the island of Tenerife, on the Canary Islands Spain, Domínguez spent his youth with his grandmother ...

, the painter and sculptor

Maruja Mallo Maruja Mallo (born Ana María Gómez González; 5 January 1902 – 6 February 1995) was a Spanish surrealist painter. She is considered an artist of the Generation of 1927 within the Spanish avant-garde movement. Biography Mallo was the fourt ...

, as well as Benjamín Palencia, Gregorio Prieto, Manuel Ángeles Ortiz and Gabriel García Maroto, the

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Ignacio Sánchez Mejías Ignacio Sánchez Mejías (6 June 1891, Seville – 13 August 1934, Madrid) was a Spanish matador. After his death following a goring (''cornada'') in the Plaza of Manzanares, he was memorialized by several poets of the Generation of '27, notably ...

and Jesús Bal y Gay, musicologists and composers belonging to the

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, including Bal y Gay,

Ernesto Halffter Ernesto Halffter Escriche (16 January 19055 July 1989) was a Spanish composer and conductor. He was the brother of Rodolfo Halffter and part of the ''Grupo de los Ocho'' ( en, Group of Eight), which formed a sub-set of the ''Generation of '27'' ...

and his brother Rodolfo Halffter,

Juan José Mantecón Juan José Mantecón (1895-1964) was a Spanish composer. He was a member of Generation of '27 and the Group of Eight, the latter of which also included composers Jesús Bal y Gay, Ernesto Halffter and his brother Rodolfo, Julián Bautista, Fe ...

, Julián Bautista,

Fernando Remacha Fernando Remacha Villar (15 December 1898 – 21 February 1984) was a Spanish composer, part of the Group of Eight which formed a sub-set of the Generation of '27. Early years Remacha was born in Tudela, Navarre on 15 December 1898. At t ...

Rosa García Ascot Rosa García Ascot (8 April 1902 in Madrid – 2 May 2002 in Torrelaguna, Madrid) was a Spanish composer and pianist. She was the only woman in the famed Group of Eight, whose members also included Julián Bautista, Ernesto Halffter and his ...

Salvador Bacarisse Salvador Bacarisse Chinoria (12 September 18985 August 1963) was a Spanish composer. Bacarisse was born in Madrid and studied music at the Real Conservatorio de Música there, as a student of Manuel Fernández Alberdi (piano) and Conrado del Camp ...

and Gustavo Pittaluga. There was also the Catalan Group who presented themselves in 1931 under the name of '' Grupo de Artistas Catalanes Independientes'', including Roberto Gerhard, Baltasar Samper,

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, Eduardo Toldrá and

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. Finally, not all literary works were written in

: Salvador Dalí and Óscar Domínguez also wrote in French. Foreigners such as the Chilean poets

Pablo Neruda Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (; ), was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Nerud ...

and

Vicente Huidobro Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández (; January 10, 1893 – January 2, 1948) was a Chilean poet born to an aristocratic family. He promoted the avant-garde literary movement in Chile and was the creator and greatest exponent of the literary m ...

, the Argentine writer

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, and the Franco-Spanish painter

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also shared much with the

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of the Generation of '27. The Generation of '27 was not exclusively located in

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, but rather deployed itself in a geographical constellation which maintained links together. The most important nuclei were in Sevilla, around the ''Mediodía'' review,

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around the ''Gaceta de Arte'', and Málaga around the ''Litoral'' review. Others members resided in

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and

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The Tendencies of '27

The name "Generation of 1927" identifies poets that emerged around 1927, the 300th anniversary of the death of the Baroque poet Luis de Góngora y Argote to whom the poets paid homage. It sparked a brief flash of neo-Gongorism by outstanding poets like Rafael Alberti, Vicente Aleixandre, Dámaso Alonso, Luis Cernuda, Gerardo Diego and Federico García Lorca.

Spanish Civil War aftermath

The Spanish Civil War ended the movement:

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was murdered,

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died in jail and other writers (Rafael Alberti, Jose Bergamin, León Felipe, Luis Cernuda, Pedro Salinas,

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, Bacarisse) were forced into exile, although virtually all kept writing and publishing late throughout the 20th century.

and

were among those who reluctantly remained in Spain after the

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won and more or less reached agreements with the new authoritarian and traditionalist regime or even openly supported it, in the case of Diego. They evolved a lot, combining tradition and avant-garde, and mixing many different themes, from toreo to music to religious and

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disquiets, landscapes, etc. Others, such as

and Juan Gil-Albert, simply ignored the new regime, taking the path of interior exile and guiding a new generation of poets. However, for many Spaniards the harsh reality of

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and its reactionary nature meant that the cerebral and aesthetic verses of the Generation of '27 did not connect with what was truly happening, a task that was handled more capably by the poets of the Generation of '50 and the social poets.

Statue

A statue dedcated to the Generation 27 Poets is now in

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. The translate on the monument translates as 'Seville The poets of the Generation of 27'

List of members

(1902–1999) *

(1898–1984) *

Amado Alonso Amado Alonso (13 September 1896, Lerín Navarre, Spain – 26 May 1952, Arlington, Massachusetts) was a Spanish philologist, linguist and literary critic, who became a naturalised citizen of Argentina and one of the founders of stylistics S ...

(1897–1952) *

(1898–1990) *

(1905–1959) * Francisco Ayala (1906–2009) * Mauricio Bacarisse (1895–1931) *

José Bello José "Pepín" Bello Lasierra (13 May 1904 – 11 January 2008) was a Spanish intellectual and writer. Bello, born in Huesca, Aragon, was the son of engineer Severino Poëysuan Bello. His parents were friends of such Spanish intellectuals as J ...

(1904–2008) * Rogelio Buendía (1891–1969) * Alejandro Casona (1903–1965) * Juan Cazador (1899–1956) *

(1902–1963) * Juan Chabás (1900–1954) * Ernestina de Champourcín (1905–1999) *

(1896–1987) *

(1898–1959) * Antonio Espina (1894–1972) * Agustín Espinosa (1897–1939) *

(1884–1968) * Agustín de Foxá (1903–1959) * Pedro García Cabrera (1905–1981) *

(1898–1936) *

Pedro Garfias Pedro Garfias Zurita (May 27, 1901 – August 9, 1967) was a Spanish poet. Garfias was born in Salamanca, Spain, but spent his childhood and youth in the Andalusian cities of Seville and Córdoba. In 1918 he moved to Madrid in order to study La ...

(1901–1967) * Juan Gil-Albert (1904–1994) *

Ernesto Giménez Caballero Ernesto Giménez Caballero (2 August 1899 in Madrid – 14 May 1988 in Madrid), also known as Gecé, was a Spanish writer, diplomat, and pioneer of Fascism in Spain. His work has been categorized as being part of the Surrealist movement, while Stan ...

(1899–1988) *

(1893–1984) * Emeterio Gutiérrez Albelo (1905–1937) *

(1910–1942) * José María Hinojosa (1904–1936) *

(1901–1952) * Rafael Laffón (1895–1978) *

(1896–1978) * Juan Larrea (1895–1980) *

(1903–1996) * José María Luelmo (1904–1991) * Francisco Madrid (1900–1952) *

Paulino Masip Paulino Masip Roca (11 May 1899 – 21 September 1963) was a Spanish playwright, screenwriter and novelist. Driven into exile in Mexico in 1939 by the events of the Spanish Civil War, he became involved with the nascent Golden age of Mexican ...

(1899–1963) * Concha Méndez (1898–1986) *

(1905–1977) *

(1899–1967) *

Antonio Oliver Antonio Oliver (Cartagena, January 29, 1903 - July 28, 1968) was a Spanish writer, poet, literary critic and historian of Spanish art. He was also a part of the Generation of '27, a group of artists and poets that specialized in the avant-garde ...

(1903–1968) * Pedro Pérez-Clotet (1902–1966) * Rafael Porlán (1899–1945) *

(1899–1962) * Joaquín Romero Murube (1904–1969) *

(1891–1951) *

Guillermo de Torre Guillermo de Torre (Madrid, 1900 – Buenos Aires, 14 January 1971) was a Spanish essayist, poet and literary critic, a Dadaist and member of the Generation of '27. He is also notable as the brother-in-law of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borge ...

(1900–1971) *

José María Souvirón José María Souvirón (1904–1973) was a Spanish poet, writer, and professor. He was a member of the Generation of '27, an influential group of Spanish poets. He was the founder of the literary magazine ''Ambos'' in Malaga (1923). He won the Migu ...

(1904–1973) * Miguel Valdivieso (1897–1966) * Fernando Villalón (1881–1930)

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