 jorge guillÃ©n y Ãlvarez (; 18 january 1893 &ndash; 6 february 1984) was a spanish poet, a member of the generation of '27, as well as a university teacher, scholar and literary critic. in 1957-8 he delivered the charles eliot norton lectures at harvard university. these were published in 1961 under the title ââlanguage and poetry: some poets of spain.ââ the final lecture was a tribute to his colleagues in the generation of â27. in 1983, he was named hijo predilecto de andalucÃ­a. ==biography== jorge guillÃ©n was born in valladolid where he spent his childhood and adolescence. from 1909 to 1911 he lived in switzerland. he studied at the universities of madrid â lodging in the residencia de estudiantes â and granada, where he took his licenciatura in philosophy in 1913.connell p 168 his life paralleled that of his friend pedro salinas, whom he succeeded as a spanish lector at the collÃ¨ge de sorbonne in the university of paris from 1917 to 1923. while in paris, he met and, in 1921, married germaine cahen. they had two children, a son claudio born in 1924 who became a noted critic and scholar of comparative literature, and a daughter teresa who married the harvard professor stephen gilman. he took his doctorate at the university of madrid in 1924 with a dissertation on gÃ³ngora's notoriously difficult and, at that time, neglected long poem polifemo.havard p 18 this was also the period when his first poem
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