Fifty Spanish Poems

Juan Ramón Jiménez is the central figure in Spanish poetry to-day. Born in 1881, he has been the greatest poetical influence in that brilliant school of modern Spanish poetry, of which F. García Lorca was one of the younger members. Ther eis nothing in Juan Ramón Jiménez of the conventional Andalusian pose known as "popularismo," so important in the poetry of some of his contemporaries, though he is no less fundamentally Spanish. This is the first time that a selection of Juan Ramón Jiménez's poetry is presented in English translation, and Professor J. B. Trend has conveyed in English the exotic impression of the original poems in Spanish.