Luis Cernuda

Luis Cernuda was born in Seville in 1902, the son of an army engineering officer. A law student in his home city, he attended the classes of Pedro Salinas there, who encouraged him to read the Spanish classics and the French poets. Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Toulouse in 1928 and 1929, he then lived in Madrid. In 1938, a trip to Great Britain to give lectures began an exile that lasted until his death: he taught at Glasgow and Cambridge, then in the United States from 1947, before settling in Mexico, where he died in 1963. He was also the author of critical essays.

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• PoetryLa realidad y el deseoLuis Cernuda · 1936not translated into EnglishLiterature