Jaime Ferrán y la generación poética de los años cincuenta

Abstract

In this article, the author traces the human and literary profile of Jaime Ferrán, a prominent member of the group of poets known as the School of Barcelona, who greatly promoted the presentation, visibility, and ideology of the Spanish poetic generation of the 1950s. Comprised of poets writing in Castilian Spanish as a result of the Franco dictatorship’s repression of teaching or writing in Catalan, the group overcomes the empty, neoclassical formalism that dominated the 1940s in Spain as well as the constant drum beating call to arms and protest that defined the socially conscious poetry of the time. Beyond the strict language of denunciation, the poetry of the group prioritizes ethical exigency and introspection; breaking discursive binds of official formalist rhetoric all the while looking for permanent poetical values facing the immediacy of the here and now. The poetry of the group goes deep into free verse in order to let loose the emotion that accompanies the discovery of the interior world.