When we talk about writers and poets of the generation of '27 we are referring to to a series of artists who around 1927 began to be seen on the Spanish cultural scene. Not all of them worked the same art but they would mark that generation as a replacement for the previous one, the generation of '98.
Let's get to know these writers and poets a little better, at the same time that we know what the generation of '27 is and why perhaps it is a peculiar name.
The generation of 27
The generation of '27 is a series of Spanish writers and poets of the 20th century. Around 1927 they became known on the cultural scene and that is where the name that has stuck to them comes from. In that year what happened was a tribute to Luis de Góngora organized by José María Romero Martínez at the Ateneo de Sevilla, which coincided with the third centenary of Góngora's death.
The name "generation of '27" It was not well received by all those who were grouped under that name. Some, like Pedro Salinas, showed that not all members met the requirements given to the concept of generation. For example, not all authors born in a period of time similar to that of the members of the "generation of '27" were part of it. Many authors were left out. Only those who had a solid university education and who all had a reference to the poet Juan Ramón Jiménez were incorporated into the group.
Before the generation of '27
The groups of writers and poets preceding the generation of '27 had coexisted with the avant-garde movements developed by the European panorama and that broke with previous themes such as romanticism or realism. So this new generation of writers It started from a time of rupture, change and artistic renewal.
The generation of '27 had two main traits. On the one hand, the expression of the subjective for which they used metaphors. On the other hand, conceptual precision, something that speaks of the great intellectual formation of this group of writers. The genres they used the most to shape words were the lyric and the essay. Both were published in newspapers and magazines such as La Sevillana Greece.
This generation was immersed in a context of social and political renewal, they were young writers, almost in greater number poets, who could not be pigeonholed into any existing group. Coming into contact with the Spanish literary world, they met in certain key places such as the Center for Historical Studies.
Even with everything, each of the members of the generation of '27 had a personality capable of transforming the influence of others into its own model, differentiated from the rest. This characteristic is perhaps the one that has the most value and at the same time the one that does not allow us to speak of a unified style or a school.
Most relevant poets and writers
Below we are going to establish a list of the poets and writers of the generation of '27 and their most important works:
- Peter Salinas with "The voice due to you"
- Hadrian del Valle with "Sonnets to Italy"
- Manuel Altolaguirre with "Escarmiento"
- Juan José Domenchina with "The Questions of Silence"
- Federico Garcia Lorca with «Romancero Gitano»
- Emilio Meadows with «Six Rooms»
- Luis Cernuda with "Reality and Desire"
- Jorge Guillen with "Canticle"
- Vicente Aleixandre with "Poems of Consummation"
- Gerardo diego with "The Cypress of Silos"
- Damaso alonso with "Sons of Wrath"
- Rafael Alberti with "On Angels"
- Pedro García Cabrera with “Captive Romancero”
In addition to the above we must mention other poets who find themselves with one foot inside of the "generation of '27" such as León Felipe, José Moreno Villa, Fernando Villalón, Max Aub, Joaquín Romero Murube and Miguel Hernández.
AlsoRemarkable are those authors that critics have left in oblivion, such as the so-called Las Sinsombrero group, a nickname that was given to them for the transgressive action of removing their hat to break the norm. This name was given by Tània Balló Colell, Serrana Torres and Manuel Jiménez Núñez to make the women of the generation of '27 visible. This project ended up being the one that gave the group a popular name.
The Sinombrero
We are talking about authors such as: María Zambrano, Concha Méndez-Cuesta, María Teresa León, Ernestina de Champourcín, Rosa Chacel, Josefina de la Torre, Luisa Carnés, Rosario de Velasco, Marga Gil Roësset, Margarita Manso, Delhy Tejero, Maruja Mallo, Remedios Varo and Ángeles Santos. women who They not only dedicated themselves to writing but also to painting or other types of arts.
We must think that The Generation of '27 covered more artistic manifestations Not only poetry and writing, it included cinema with Buñuel or painting with authors like Dalí. Although authors like these are framed in other denominations, they are still authors who lived in the same context.