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Originally produced in 2006.

Editor, Sebastián Jaen ; camera, Federico Merea ; illustrator, Laura Ohman ; music composer, Carlos Gramuglia.

Narrator, Liz Chang, Tony Middleton.

Rafael Alberti is regarded today as one of the greatest of modern Spanish poets. A member of the "Generation of 1927," a group of Spanish poets known for revitalizing the art to a quality not seen since the sixteenth century, Alberti gradually turned away from the lyric traditions of his homeland, embracing communism and a more utilitarian style. After the Spanish Civil War, he fled the country and lived in exile, first in Argentina, then in Rome, before finally returning to Spain in 1977, after the death of Franco. Deftly interweaving political concerns into his poetry, Rafael Alberti fashioned a literary style suited to the social turmoil of the 20th century. This program shows the evolution of that style, from the highly personal Marinero en Tierra, to the balance of playfulness and melancholy in El Alba de Alhelí, to the mystical and nearly apocalyptic Sobre los Angeles.

DVD.

In English; close-captioned.

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