Rafael Alberti (1902–1999)
Author of The Lost Grove
About the Author
Alberti is considered one of Spain's major poets of the twentieth century. Born in Cadiz, Spain, in 1902, he began his career as a painter, exhibiting his own work in Madrid before he was twenty. In 1923 he turned to reading and writing poetry and published his first volume, Marinero en tierra, a show more book of lyrics evoking lost childhood, in 1924. His poetry remained controversial until 1927, when he wrote Cal y canto (Quicklime and Song), poems dominated by intricate and incongruous images. In 1929 he published the volume considered his most important, Sobre los angeles (Concerning the Angels), a surrealist work dealing with the good and bad angels inhabiting modern shattered psyches. In the 1930's Alberti was becoming active politically, founding a Communist newspaper, Octubre, in 1934. His poetry during the 1930s became more political than aesthetic, as for example in El poeta en la calle. After fighting on the side of the republic during the Spanish Civil War, he was forced to flee Spain. He went to Argentina where he worked in a publishing house and resumed his interest in painting and writing. There he published his autobiography, La Arboleda Perdida (The Lost Grove) in 1942. Alberti later moved to Italy. In 1977, Alberti returned to Spain. He died in Madrid at the age of 96. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Series
Works by Rafael Alberti
Sobre los ángeles. Yo era un tonto y lo que he visto me ha hecho dos tontos. Edición de C. Brian Morris. (1977) 30 copies, 1 review
Poemas del destierro y de la espera: (antologia) (Selecciones Austral ; 20) (Spanish Edition) (1976) 29 copies
Aire, que me lleva el aire!: Antologia juvenil (Labor bolsillo juvenil ; 19) (Spanish Edition) (1979) 13 copies
The Other Shore: 100 Poems by Rafael Alberti (Modern Poets in Translation Series, Vol. 1) (Spanish and English Edition) (1981) 6 copies
Numancia Tragedia. Adaptación y versión actualizada... estrenada en Madrid, 1937 (1975) 4 copies, 1 review
El poeta en la calle ; De un momento a otro ; Vida bilingue de un refugiado espanol en Francia (1978) 4 copies, 1 review
Poetas dramáticos españoles. Tomo I — Editor; Introduction, some editions; Introduction, some editions — 3 copies
Teatro: La lozana andaluza. De un momento a otro. Noche de guerra en el Museo del Prado (1964) 3 copies
Versos sueltos de cada día (El Libro De Bolsillo - Bibliotecas De Autor - Biblioteca Alberti) (1999) 3 copies
Poemas de Punta del Este ; Buenos Aires en tinta china (Obras de Rafael Alberti) (Spanish Edition) (1979) 3 copies
Signos del dia ; La primavera de los pueblos (Obras de Rafael Alberti ; 5) (Spanish Edition) (1978) 3 copies
Per conoscere Rafael Alberti 2 copies
Ich war ein Dummkopf, und was ich gesehen habe, hat mich zu zwei Dummkoepfen gemacht : (1929) = Yo era un tonto y lo que he visto me ha hecho dos tontos. Sermone und Seelenra ume… (1987) — Author — 2 copies
El alba del alhelí 2 copies
Poetas dramáticos españoles Guillén de Castro, Mira de Amescua, Vélez de Guevara, Rojas, [Tirso de Molina, Ruiz de Alarcón, Agustín… — Editor; Introduction, some editions — 2 copies
Ritratti di contemporanei 2 copies
Matta Hoy 1 copy
Litoral Alberti 1 copy
Teatro - ed. autografada 1 copy
Poesía en la calle 1 copy
32.- La Arboleda perdida 1 copy
Poemas anteriores a "Marinero en tierra" ; Marinero en tierra ; La amante ; Dos estampidas reales ; El alba del alhelí (1978) 1 copy
El Amor y los Ángeles 1 copy
Poezii 1 copy
Alberti 1 copy
Antología Poética - Losada 1 copy
Federico Garcia Lorca 1 copy
Cuaderno de rute 1 copy
Lírica amorosa alemã moderna — Author — 1 copy
Correspondencia a Jose Maria Cossio ; seguido de Auto de fe y otros hallazgos ineditos (Spanish Edition) (1998) 1 copy
La poesía de Rafael Alberti (1930 1939) / Rafael Alberti; editado por Antonio Jimenez Millán. (1984) 1 copy
De los álamos y los sauces 1 copy
ANTOLOGÍA COMENTADA 1 copy
Yitik Koru 1 copy
Poesía escogida (1924-1982) 1 copy
Nuestra diaria palabra 1 copy
María Carmen Portela 1 copy
Associated Works
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contributor — 496 copies, 2 reviews
Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993) — Contributor — 375 copies, 2 reviews
De generatie van 1927 Rafael Alberti, Vicente Aleixandre, Damaso Alonso, Luis Cernuda, Federico Garcia Lorca, Jorge Guillén, Pedro Salinas (1985) — Contributor — 10 copies
Spanische Stücke — Author, some editions — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Alberti y Merello, Rafael
- Other names
- ALBERTI Y MERELLO, Rafael
ALBERTI, Rafael - Birthdate
- 1902-12-16
- Date of death
- 1999-10-18
- Gender
- male
- Organizations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary, Literature, 1975)
- Awards and honors
- Premio Miguel de Cervantes (1983)
- Relationships
- Leon, Maria Teresa (wife)
- Nationality
- Spain
- Associated Place (for map)
- Spain
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Reviews
Cal y canto / Lime and Singing: (1926-1927) (El Libro De Bolsillo) (Spanish Edition) by Rafael Alberti
Cal y canto, probably one of the lesser-read books of Rafael Alberti, seems to me to stand as a sort of primer for his next two books—Sobre los ángeles and Yo era un tonto y lo que he visto me ha hecho dos tontos. Cal y canto is far from being a masterpiece, lacking as it does the necessary internal logic, some form of cohesion that hold its separate parts together. However, that said, the separate parts in and of themselves are brilliant--they just don't hold together as a "book of show more poetry". And there is a dramatic shift from a Darío-like emphasis on form and eternal myth, to the contemporary and the technological that proves to be jarring at first. To me, as a reader, the transition from the timeless to the time-specific was a welcome one, but that's just because I prefer my modernism to be very grounded in its present moment.
In sum: There are many reasons to read Cal y canto if your specialty is 20th century Spanish poetry. If it's not, and you do read Spanish, this might be an entertaining read (moreso the latter half of the book) for some. Mostly, though, this is one for the super-specialized, and far from being a pleasure-read. show less
In sum: There are many reasons to read Cal y canto if your specialty is 20th century Spanish poetry. If it's not, and you do read Spanish, this might be an entertaining read (moreso the latter half of the book) for some. Mostly, though, this is one for the super-specialized, and far from being a pleasure-read. show less
Cal y canto, probably one of the lesser-read books of Rafael Alberti, seems to me to stand as a sort of primer for his next two books—Sobre los ángeles and Yo era un tonto y lo que he visto me ha hecho dos tontos. Cal y canto is far from being a masterpiece, lacking as it does the necessary internal logic, some form of cohesion that hold its separate parts together. However, that said, the separate parts in and of themselves are brilliant--they just don't hold together as a "book of show more poetry". And there is a dramatic shift from a Darío-like emphasis on form and eternal myth, to the contemporary and the technological that proves to be jarring at first. To me, as a reader, the transition from the timeless to the time-specific was a welcome one, but that's just because I prefer my modernism to be very grounded in its present moment.
In sum: There are many reasons to read Cal y canto if your specialty is 20th century Spanish poetry. If it's not, and you do read Spanish, this might be an entertaining read (moreso the latter half of the book) for some. Mostly, though, this is one for the super-specialized, and far from being a pleasure-read. show less
In sum: There are many reasons to read Cal y canto if your specialty is 20th century Spanish poetry. If it's not, and you do read Spanish, this might be an entertaining read (moreso the latter half of the book) for some. Mostly, though, this is one for the super-specialized, and far from being a pleasure-read. show less
Libros de Matias y Carmen. Ed. Orbis - Historia de la Literatura española. Vol. 14
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