Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

Pedro Salinas y Serrano: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Born November 27, 1891 • Madrid • Spain
Died December 4, 1951 (aged 60) • Boston • Massachusetts
Notable Works “To Live in Pronouns” • “Truth of Two and Other Poems”
Movement / Style Generation of 1927
Subjects Of Study Jorge Manrique • Rubén Darío
default image
Luis Cernuda
Spanish poet and critic
default image
Dámaso Alonso
Spanish writer
default image
Fernando de Herrera
Spanish poet
default image
Juan Pablo Forner
Spanish writer
default image
Iñigo López de Mendoza, marquis de Santillana
Spanish poet
default image
Carlos Bousoño
Spanish poet and critic
default image
Alberto Lista
Spanish writer
Early 20th century black and white portrait of poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, seated and resting his face on his hand.
Federico García Lorca
Spanish writer
default image
Rosa Chacel
Spanish writer
Alberti, Rafael
Rafael Alberti
Spanish poet and playwright
default image
Jorge Guillén
Spanish poet
default image
Vicente Aleixandre
Spanish poet
default image
Francisco Manuel de Melo
Portuguese author
default image
Concha Espina de Serna
Spanish author
Engraving of Miguel de Cervantes, shown with a mustache and beard, wearing a ruffled collar and cloak, based on works by Gregorio Ferro and Fernando Selma.
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish writer
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Spanish author
Lope de Vega
Lope de Vega
Spanish author
Santayana
George Santayana
Spanish-American philosopher
Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, oil painting attributed to El Greco; in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga
Spanish soldier and poet
Leopoldo Alas.
Leopoldo Alas
Spanish writer

Related Quizzes

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
Poetry: First Lines
Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry
4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
Famous Poets and Poetic Form