Romantic Eliot: the Reception of T.S. Eliot in Spain in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century

Abstract

The article explores interpretations of T.S. Eliot by three Spanish poets: José Ángel Valente, Andrés Sánchez Robayna and Antonio Colinas. For them Eliot brought about the renewal of poetry in the early twentieth century. However, contrary to the popular view of Eliot as a Modernist who censured the late developments of Romanticism, Valente, Sánchez Robayna and Colinas regarded his poems as a continuation of Romanticism. The article considers the Spanish authors’ essays by analyzing the way they created the figure of Eliot as an heir of Romanticism.