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Juan Ramon Jimenez

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Juan Ramon Jimenez was the son of a banker. He grew up in Moguer, a beautiful region of Spain that deeply imprinted itself on the poet. Jimenez studied painting at the University of Seville before abandoning his schoolwork to dedicate himself completely to writing.

In the early 1900s, Jimenez composed several collections of poetry, and he also translated the work of Hindu poet Rabindranath Tagore into Spanish (with Zenobia Camprubi, who later became his wife). Later in his career he also became an influential literary critic. (Despite his great poetic work, in the US Jimenez first gained notoriety for his novel Platero y yo/Platero and I.)

When the Spanish Civil War broke out, he was sent by the Republican faction to the US as an honorary cultural attache. When the fascist forces under Franco took control of Spain, Jimenez and his wife settled in Puerto Rico and Cuba.

Themes of nature, depths, immensity, death, darkness, secret life, and transcendence appear in many of his poems. The spirituality reflected in his poetry is deeply personal, mystical, and transformative.

In 1956, Juan Ramon Jimenez was awarded the Nobel Prize. He died two years later in Puerto Rico.

Poems by Juan Ramon Jimenez

	Full Consciousness
	Full Moon
	I Am Not I
	Oceans
	Who Knows What is Going On

Recommended Books

	Invisible Reality, by Juan Ramon Jimenez / Translated by Antonio T. De Nicolas Amazon.com
	News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness, Edited by Robert Bly Amazon.com
	Platery y yo / Platero and I, by Juan Ramon Jimenez / Translated by Antonio Frasconi Amazon.com
	Selected Writings of Juan Ramon Jimenez, by Juan Ramon Jimenez Amazon.com
	Time and Space: A Poetic Autobiography, by Juan Ramon Jimenez / Translated by Antonio T. De Nicolas Amazon.com
	The Winged Energy of Delight, Translated by Robert Bly Amazon.com

Related Links:

	Juan Ramon Jimenez http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jimenez.htm A brief online biography.
	Juan Ramon Jimenez - Biography http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1956/jimenez-bio.html A brief biography from the Nobel Prize web site.
	Juan Ramon on the self http://www.plu.edu/~jensenmk/271ramon.html An interesting article exploring Juan Ramon Jimenez's ideas of the self.
	Juan Ramon Jimenez: Substance in the Moment http://www.pemmicanpress.com/articles/jimenez.html An interesting meditation on the writings of Juan Ramon Jimenez.

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