Luis Cernuda and the Modern English Poets · A Study of the Influence of Browing, Yeats and Eliot on His Poetry

Though several generations of critics have reported finding English influences in the poetry of Luis Cernuda, no detailed or systematic study of the question has yet been undertaken. This book tackles the issue, concentrating on the traces in Cernuda’s work of three major English language poets: Robert Browning, W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot. Hughes takes us through a wide selection of the poetry Cernuda wrote in exile –which he holds to be the best and most significant work– in support of his argument that Cernuda’s conception of poetry underwent a radical reorganisation as a result of his absorption of certain of the techniques of his models. Browning’s influence, it is argued, is noticeable chiefly in prosodic features and in the use of the persona, Yeats’s is principally thematic, and Eliot’s is in some ways the most pervasive, since it affects Cernuda’s style and phrasing.Digital edition of the printed work in 1988.Brian Hughes, was a professor and director of the Department of English Philology at the University of Alicante. Outstanding Hispanist, recognized for his scientific works in special languages and legal English. An expert in modern Anglo-Irish literature, especially poetry, he embraced new fields of linguistics and his knowledge of the poet Luis Cernuda led him to participate in many forums that have been held about the writer.