Key Points

• Leading figure of the Spanish literary movement Generación del '98

• Evolved form a modernist writer to symbolism with romantic traits

• Poetry characterized by a meditative contemplation of nature existence through nature

• Cultivated the social realism

• His pessimism and contradictions attest to the political factions of the Spain of his time

Relevant Works

• Soledades: poesías

• Campos de Castilla

• Nuevas canciones

• La tierra e Alvargonzález

• Poesías completas

• Juan de Mairena

• La Lola se va a los puertos