SOURCE: “Texts and Intertexts in Jorge Guillén's Homenaje,” in Comparative Literature, Vol. 43, No. 4, Fall, 1991, pp. 370-82.

In the following essay, Young discusses literary references in the poems of Guillén's collection Homenaje.

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Homenaje (reunión de vidas)—Jorge Guillén's “poetic daybook”—contains a cornucopia of responses to a lifetime of browsing in world literature. Through hundreds of poems inspired by extensive readings of poetry and prose in several languages, Guillén has not only left a record of his tastes and interests, which were catholic and considerable, but has also provided, in the peculiar tandem of the reading and writing self that characterizes Homenaje, an unusual opportunity to observe the means by which a strong and singleminded poet reads to refute and affirm the texts of other...