Un ensayo inédito de Bartomeu Forteza: La poesia d’En Joan Alcover

Abstract

The main purpose of this article is to present an unpublished essay by Bartomeu Forteza (1894-1957) about the figure and literary work of Joan Alcover; it also includes a brief presentation of the author, a lyric poet, translator and essayist whose periodical press articles show the recurrent, polític and aesthetic considerations of the first middle of the XX century. This essay, winner of and Institut d’Estudis Catalans award, has an special interest for many reasons: it proves the existence of a Catalan literary criticism during the fifties, it is the first specific monography about Joan Alcover, the most important author –with Miquel Costa i Llobera– of the Escola Mallorquina; and, finally, his author advances some of the conclusions of later criticism: the refined style care, the clasicism, the simbolic treatment of the nature in poems, the influence of the French poetry.