León Felipe
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León Felipe Camino Galicia (11 April 1884 - 17 September 1968) was a Spanish poet.
Felipe was born in Tábara, Zamora, Spain. He was one of the best contemporary poets of Spanish literature. He fought in the Spanish Civil War for the Republican army against the Nationalist army. In 1938 he left Spain and began a voluntary exile in Mexico.
His poetry touched upon the difficult Spanish situation and the feeling that history would repeat itself for the worst. His use of reiteration or repetition and the use of the verse in the biblical fashion brought him close to the works of Walt Whitman with a biblical and Hebrew flavor (Antología rota, 1947). His poetry also has characteristics of the Modernismo and the Vanguardismo movements (Drop a star, 1933).
He lived the last years of his life in Mexico and died in Mexico City on 17 September 1968.
[edit] Selected works
- El payaso de las bofetadas (1938)
- El hacha (1939)
- Ganarás la luz (1943)
- El último publicano (1950)
- El ciervo (1958)
- In 1963 his complete works were published.
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