Una aproximación al poemario Ángel en el País del Águila (1954) de Ángel Martínez Baigorri: génesis, estructura y temas [An Approach to the Collection of Poems Ángel en el País del Águila (1954) by Ángel Martínez Baigorri: Genesis, Structure, and Topics]

Abstract

This paper analyses the collection of poems Ángel en el País del Águila by Ángel Martínez Baigorri (1899-1971). Published for the first time in Spain (1954), it would later be included in the volume Poesías completas I, edited by Emilio del Río (1999). Its genesis is studied (during the poet’s stay in the United States of America, between August 1946 and the end of 1947), and also its structure (the external and the internal one) and the topics (in addition to the description of some American cities such as New Orleans and New York, the nuclear theme is the struggle of the Angel –‘the world of the spirit’– to enter into the Eagle –‘the material world’– and breathe new and...