Dámaso Alonso

Dámaso Alonso was born in Madrid in 1898. He studied law, philosophy and letters, trained at the Centro de Estudios Históricos under Ramón Menéndez Pidal, and frequented the Residencia de Estudiantes. A lecturer and professor at several foreign universities, including Oxford, he published a critical edition of Góngora in 1927 and renewed the study of Baroque poetry. Holder of a chair in Madrid after the war, he directed the Spanish Academy from 1968 to 1982 and received the Cervantes Prize in 1978. He died in Madrid in 1990.

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• PoetryChildren of WrathHijos de la iraDámaso Alonso · 1944Literature