Author: Vicente Gaos
- Poetry / Essay
- Cátedra
- ISBN: 9788437600536
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: Lluís Agustí

Although there are critics who cast doubt on the reality of literary generations or groupings, the use of such classifications has enjoyed some success in the presentation of the literary history of a language, and more specifically, of a country. If we refer to the generation of Spanish writers, many of them poets, from the interwar period, the so called Generation of 1927, then undoubtedly that grouping has become an icon, a landmark. Pedro Salinas, Federico García Lorca, Vicente Aleixandre, Jorge Guillén, Gerardo Diego, Rafael Alberti, Emilio Prados, Dámaso Alonso, Luis Cernuda, and Manuel Altolaguirre represent the best of 20th century Spanish poetry.