Diego, Gerardo

Diego, Gerardo

▪ Spanish poet and musicologist
in full  Gerardo Diego Cendoya 
born Oct. 3, 1896, Santander, Spain
died July 8, 1987, Madrid

      Spanish musicologist and prolific, innovative poet.

      Diego received a doctorate from the University of Madrid in 1920. During the 1920s he wrote experimental poetry and joined the avant-garde Ultraísmo and Creacionismo movements. He taught for a time in the ancient town of Soria in north-central Spain; the location inspired the poems of Imagen (1922), Soria (1923), and Versos humanos (1925; “Human Verses”). In Vía crucis (1931; “Way of the Cross”) Diego explored religious themes. Angeles de Compostela (1940; rev. ed., 1961), which also contains religious poetry, and Alondra de verdad (1941; “Lark of Truth”), a diary in 42 sonnets, have been called his best work; both collections are relatively traditional and classical in tone.

      From 1939 to 1966 Diego was a professor at the Beatriz Galindo Institute in Madrid, where he continued to produce new poems at a rapid rate. Paisaje con figuras (1956; “Landscape with Figures”) won the second of his national literary awards, and in 1979 he shared the Cervantes Prize with Jorge Luis Borges.

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