Ortega and the Poets of 1927

FAIN: FA-11338-76

Philip W. Silver
Columbia University (New York, NY 10027-7922)

To complete a book entitled The Friends of Seeing; Ortega, Salinas, Guillen, D. Alonso, C. Rodriguez, a revisionist view of twentieth century Spanish literature before the Civil War, focusing on the work of Jose Ortega y Gasset and his contemporaries. Being established is the relationship between Ortega's philosophy and esthetics and the work of several of the most significant Spanish poets of this century. The study will be a first step in the elaboration of a general theory of the Spanish poetic imagination.