Engaging and engaged poetry: the poet, the reader and history in the works of Luis García Montero

Cullell Teixidor, D ORCID: 0000-0001-8146-8083 (2019) Engaging and engaged poetry: the poet, the reader and history in the works of Luis García Montero. Hispanic Research Journal, 20 (2). pp. 119-140.

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Abstract

This article examines some of the tenets around which Luis García Montero — one of the most read, acclaimed, and influential Spanish poets of today — has actively built his verse until the present day. The article pays special attention to contrasting most of the poetry the author published between the 1980s and his latest collection, Balada en la muerte de la poesía (2016). This publication is presented here as a turning point in García Montero’s precepts and ideas about poetry, the reader, and history, with particular consideration for ideas around civic commitment (both social and political), and literature conceived as an art with a purpose. An analysis of the main features in Balada en la muerte de la poesía will aim to explain and rationalize a poetic publication that seems to destabilize a carefully orchestrated programme, constructed by the author through his poetry and essays over the course of thirty years. It will draw some hypotheses about where this shift might lead to, both for the poet and for Spanish poetry in general.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Poetry, reader, poet, civic commitment, engaged poetry
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	05 Nov 2018 09:08
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 01:13
DOI:	10.1080/14682737.2019.1603454
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3028378