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Article: Figuring modernity: Juan Ramon Jimenez and the Baudelairian tradition of the prose poem
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- Comparative Literature
- Article date:
- July 1, 1996
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THE PROSE POEMS of Juan Ramon Jimenez's (1881-1958) Diario de un poeta recien casado (1917), the landmark inititation of his "segunda epoca" of poetic creation, frequently provoke critical perplexity. The uneven tone and quality of these works, in which he abandons Decadentism to cultivate his "p
oesia desnuda," and their often jarring difference from the surrounding verse prompted the poet himself to suggest separating Diario's prose and verse (Michael P. Predmore, La poesia 12-13). Yet the circumstances that surround Jimenez's generic substitution (of prose for verse) help us better to understand the genre of the prose poem historically, both as the result of the modern poet's desire to ...