Sobre los ángeles

Rafael Alberti (1902-1999) was a leading Spanish poet and dramatist of the Generation of '27, the avant-garde circle that also included Federico García Lorca and Jorge Guillén. His early collection Marinero en tierra (1925) won Spain's National Prize for Literature, and Sobre los ángeles (1929) is widely considered his masterpiece. A member of the Communist Party of Spain and a cultural spokesman for the Republic during the Spanish Civil War, he went into exile after Franco's victory, living in...