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Juan Ramon Jimenez Spain (1881 - 1958) Timeline Secular or Eclectic Poems by Juan Ramon Jimenez Books - Links |
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 became exiles and 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
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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.
