Leopoldo Panero and his antology of the Spanish American Poetry. A “personal” reading of America

Abstract

The current article tries to offer an estetic and political lecture of the Antología de la poesía hispanoamericana published by Leopoldo Panero between 1944 and 1945 under the governmental protection. The article starts defining the particular biography of the spanish writer, and his relations with the Spanish American poets –specially Vallejo and Neruda– and his journeys to America as a relevant man of the Francoist movement between 1949 and 1954. The systematic lecture of his prefaces and his selection of poets disclose his particular vision of Latin America, always influenced by the imperial concept of Falange but based in his own vision of the symbolism of the American Lyric. These lines try to maintain, to summarize, the thesis that defends the incredible complexity of Panero’s postulates.