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3 unusual facts about Generation of '27


Ateneo de Sevilla

This act is considered the founding document of the Generation of '27 despite their differences in age and colorful aesthetic.

Generation of '27

Writers and intellectuals celebrated an homage in the Ateneo de Sevilla, which retrospectively became the foundational act of the movement.

Katherine R. Whitmore

Salinas' love letters to Whitmore from 1932 to 1947, kept at Houghton Library in Harvard University, were published in 2002 as Cartas a Katherine. Whitmore was specialized in Generation of '27 literature, which means she had to teach the poetry written for her to her students.


Generation of '98

Several progressive professors were dismissed from the Central University of Madrid for promoting the ideas of Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781–1832), a German philosopher who advocated academic tolerance and liberty.

#The Restoration project of Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, was an attempt to create a constitutional monarchy based on the contemporary British Crown which began shortly after Cánovas was appointed prime minister by Alfonso XII in 1874.

Marcos Sastre

He founded, along with Juan B. Alberdi, Juan María Gutiérrez and Esteban Echeverría, the "Salón Literario", the beginning of the Generation of '37.

Miguel Hernández

Miguel Hernández Gilabert (30 October 1910, Orihuela – 28 March 1942, Alicante) was a 20th-century Spanish poet and playwright associated with the Generation of '27 movement and the Generation of '36 movement.

Pedro Goyena

He made a mark in Argentine politics with his strong opposition to Laïcité, which characterized the Generation of '80 that governed the country in the second half of the 19th century and the beginnings of the 20th.


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