Dámaso Alonso

Damaso Alonso ( born October 22, 1898 in Madrid, † January 25, 1990 in Madrid) was a Spanish poet, linguist and Hispanist.

• 2.1 author
• 2.2 Editor and translator 2.2.1 German editions

• 3.1 The poet
• 3.2 The Romance

Life and work

The scientist

Damaso Alonso y Fernández de las Redondas was at the Complutense University of Madrid Ramón Menéndez Pidal of students. After two years at Oxford University, he was appointed in 1933 to the Chair of Spanish Language and Literature from the University of Valencia, from there in 1941 at the University of Madrid ( until 1968 ). There Fernando Lázaro Carreter was one of his students. 1948 Alonso was elected to the Spanish Royal Academy and in 1950 was added to the public; after the death of Ramón Menéndez Pidal, he took over its management. He gave the Revista Española de Filología out.

The poet

The poet Alonso was part of the Generación del 27 His main work Hijos de la ira. Diario íntimo, Madrid 1944 ( German: . Sons of wrath poems transferred and edited by Karl August Horst, Berlin / Frankfurt am Main, 1954. ) Made in Franco's Spain for attention. It consists of a " series of action poems, Selbstverunglimpfungen and polemical attacks, the pain embossed, furious and supported by a precise imagery, the unusual resistance of a poet who demonstrate in scant time ' " and " evoke the spiritual and material destruction of the country honestly " ( Klaus Dirscherl in: history of Spanish Literature, edited by Christoph Strosetzki, Tübingen 1991, p 355 ). .

1978 Alonso won the Cervantespreis.

Works (Romance )

Author

• La lengua de Góngora poética, Madrid 1935
• La Poesía de San Juan de la Cruz, Madrid 1942
• Ensayos sobre poesía española, Buenos Aires 1946
• Vida y obra de Medrano, Madrid 1948
• Poesía española. Ensayo de Métodos y límites estilísticos. Garcilaso. Fray Luis de León. San Juan de la Cruz. Góngora. Lope de Vega. Quevedo, Madrid 1950, 5th edition 1993 ( German: Spanish seal test on the methods and limits of style, Bern / Munich 1962. )
• ( with Carlos Bousoño ) Seis Calas de la expresión literaria española, prose, poesía, teatro, Madrid 1951
• Poetas españoles contemporaneos, Madrid 1952, 3rd edition 1988
• La Primitiva Epica francesa a la luz de una nota Emilianense, Madrid 1954
• Estudios y ensayos gongorinos, Madrid 1955, 1960
• Menéndez Pelayo, crítico literario. Las palinodias de Don Marcelino, Madrid 1956
• De los siglos oscuros al de Oro. Notas y artículos a través de 700 años de letras españolas, Madrid 1958
• Primavera temprana de la literatura europea. Lírica, Epica, novela, Madrid 1961
• Dos Españoles del Siglo de Oro. Un poeta madrileñista, latin ista ista france y en la mitad del siglo XVI. El Fabio de la " Epistola moral " su cara y cruz y en Méjico en España, Madrid 1960
• Góngora y el " Polyphemus ," 2 vols, Madrid 1960-1961
• Del Siglo de Oro a este siglo de siglas. Notas y artículos a través de 350 años de letras españolas, Madrid 1962
• Cuatro poetas españoles. Garcilaso. Góngora. Maragall. Antonio Machado, Madrid 1962
• Cancionero y romancero español, Madrid 1969 1985
• Obras completas, 10 vols, Madrid 1972-1993 1 Estudios Lingüísticos peninsulares (1972 )
• 2-4. Estudios sobre literatura y ensayos (1973-1975)
• 5-7. Góngora y el gongorismo (1978-1984)
• 8 Comentarios de textos (1985 )
• 9 Poesía española y otros estudios (1989 )
• 10 Verso y Prosa literaria (1993 )

Editor and translator

• Luis de Góngora, Las Soledades, Madrid 1927, 1956
• Luis Carrillo de Sotomayor, POESIAS completas, Madrid 1936
• Gil Vicente, Tragicomedia de Don Duardos, Madrid 1942
• ( with Rafael Ferreres ) Cancionero antequerano, recogido por los años 1627 y 1628 por Ignacio de Toledo y Godoy, Madrid 1950
• ( Translator ) Walther von Wartburg, Problemas y metodos de la linguistica, Madrid 1951 1991
• El Hospital de los podridos y otros alguna vez entremeses atribuidos a Cervantes, Madrid 1987
• Francisco de Medrano, Poesía, Madrid 1988

German editions

• Sons of wrath. Poems. Suhrkamp ( Bibliothek Suhrkamp Vol. 12 ), 1954. Transferred from the Spanish and edited by Karl August Horst. ( Newer edition 1997: ISBN 978-3-5180-1022-8 )
• Spanish poetry. Essay on methods and limits of stylistics. Francke, 1962. German by Christoph Eich under al. by Ina Reiss.
• Essays on Spanish literature, ed. by Günther Haensch and Thekla Lepsius, Ismaning 1974