An important lyric and philosophic poet of the Generation of 1936, Luis Felipe Vivanco saw his life and work severely disrupted by the Spanish Civil War and by the fact that he worked with the Falangist party and then broke with it and retired from public life in 1945. Although, as an architect, he always supported himself and his family, because of his consuming interest in literature, literary theory, and aesthetics, as well as his personal integrity, he came to a be a good friend of most of the major poets of the time and analyzed their work and its history in his Introducción a la poesía española contemporánea (1957), which was awarded the Premio de Fastenrath by the Spanish Real Academía. He also did several translations, notably of the poetry of Rainer Rilke and Paul Claudel. An advocate of avant-garde...