After-war poetry in Barcelona

Abstract

The history of Spanish poetry has refused up to now the poetry written in Barcelona between the final of the Civil War and 1951, the year of the foundation of the so-called «School of Barcelona». In this article there will be drawn some of the general lines of this nearly twelve years of Spanish writing, which where a period of linguistic substitution and cultural ideology, launching years of new editorials and collections, the creation of reviews y rewards, of tertulias and of plentiful poetic creations in Barcelona, the most part of them under the sign of surrealism. The main names of this history should be more or less known (J.R. Masoliver, Cirlot, Garcés, and so on), but their determination in connecting with the best poetry former of the Civil War and outside from Spain, should be worth mentioning for their singularity as well as for the quality of their products.