To cite this document, always state the source as shown above. It was later edited and republished in Nobel Lectures. Published in the book series Les Prix Nobel. Ramón Jiménez died in Puerto Rico in 1958.įrom Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901-1967, Editor Horst Frenz, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1969 Selections from most of his works were published in English translation in Selected Writings of Juan Ramón Jiménez and Three Hundred Poems, 1903-1953. The latter book, perhaps his best, clearly reveals the religious preoccupations that filled the last years of the poet’s life. During these years Juan Ramón taught at various universities and published Españoles de tres mundos (Spaniards of Three Worlds), 1942, a book of prose portraits, and several collections of poems, among them Voces de mi copla (Voices of My Song), 1945, and Animal de fondo (Animal of Depth). He remained in Cuba for three years and, in 1939, went to the United States, which became his residence until 1951, when he moved definitely to Puerto Rico. Six years later, as the result of the Spanish Civil War, he left Spain for Puerto Rico and Cuba. In 1930 he retired to Seville to devote himself to the revision of his earlier work. He was active as a critic as well as an editor of literary journals. In the twenties, Ramón Jiménez became the acknowledged master of the new generation of poets. His later style, decisive, formally ascetic, and dominated by white, emerges in the poetic prose of his delicate Platero y yo (Platero and I), 1914, and is fully developed in Diario de un poeta recién casado (Diary of a Newly-Wed Poet), 1917, written during a trip to the United States, as well as in Eternidades (Eternities), 1918, Piedra y cielo (Stone and Sky), 1919, Poesía (Poetry), 1923, and Belleza (Beauty), 1923. It is strongly visual and dominated by the colours yellow and green. His early poetry was influenced by German Romanticism and French Symbolism. The years between 1905 to 1912 Ramón Jiménez spent at his birthplace, Moguer, where he wrote Elejías puras (Pure Elegies), 1908, La soledad sonora (Sonorous Solitude), 1911, and Poemas mágicos y dolientes (Magic Poems of Sorrow), 1911. The leader of this group of modernistas, as they called themselves, Rubén Darío, helped Juan Ramón to publish Almas de violeta (Souls of Violet), 1900, his first volume of poetry. J uan Ramón Jiménez (1881-1958) belonged to the group of writers who, in the wake of Spain’s loss of her colonies to the United States (1898), staged a literary revival. Share via Email: Juan Ramón Jiménez – Biographical Share this content via Email.Share on LinkedIn: Juan Ramón Jiménez – Biographical Share this content on LinkedIn.

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