Vicente Aleixandre

Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo (Sevilla, 26 de abril de 1898-Madrid, 13 de diciembre de 1984) fue un poeta español de la llamada Generación del 27. Elegido académico en sesión del día 30 de junio de 1949, ingresó en la Real Academia Española el 22 de enero de 1950. Ocupó el sillón de la letra O.
Obtuvo el Premio Nacional de Literatura en 1934 por La destrucción o el amor,​ el Premio de la Crítica en 1963 por En un vasto dominio, y en 1969, por Poemas de la consumación, y el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1977.

Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo (26 April 1898 – 14 December 1984) was a Spanish poet who was born in Seville in 1898.^[1] Aleixandre received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977 "for a creative poetic writing which illuminates man's condition in the cosmos and in present-day society, at the same time representing the great renewal of the traditions of Spanish poetry between the wars". He was part of the Generation of '27.
Aleixandre's early poetry, which he wrote mostly in free verse, is highly surrealistic. It also praises ^[3]The melancholia of his poetry was also the melancholy of failed or ephemeral love affairs.
the beauty of nature by using symbols that represent the earth and the sea. Many of Aleixandre's early poems are filled with sadness. They reflect his feeling that people have lost the passion and free spirit that he saw in nature. He was one of the greatest poets of Spanish literature alongside Cernuda and Lorca.
He died on 14 December 1984 in Madrid, aged 86.