SOURCE: “Cosmic Love in Lorca and Guillén,” in At Home and Beyond: New Essays on Spanish Poets of the Twenties, edited by Salvador Jimenez Fajardo and John C. Wilcox, Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies, 1983, pp. 53-68.

In the following essay, Dust discusses the poetry of Guillén and of Frederico García Lorca in terms of their sense of “cosmological reality.”

In 1926, at the time when the young poets of the Generation of 1925 were beginning to make their unique contribution to a vertiable “Silver Age” in Spanish literature, José Ortega y Gasset perceptively noted that the prevailing ideology of the times had become exessively psychologistic and he voiced the need for a different point of view based on a more comprehensive, cosmological orientation. Nowhere was this more in evidence, Ortega insisted, than in the understanding and treatment of love: “Los refiniamientos en la psicología...