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As a member of the Generation of '27, Alberti won numerous prizes and awards and is considered one of the great literary figures of the Silver Age of Spanish Literature. In this program, Alberti recites his poem "Marinero en tierra" and reads a poem composed for the interview, "Concerning praise on my account." He also shows his many books that combine his art and poems. In this 1977 interview for Spanish television on the returnof exiled Spanish...

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,...