"Hacia "Cántico": Escritos de los años 20", 1915 - 1974

Part II of the Jorge Guillén papers consists of working and clean copies of poetry and prose by Guillén, published copies of his work, and correspondence with members of his family. The material from Guillén's Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University (1957-58) were later published as Lenguaje y Poesta. The working manuscripts of Y Otros Poemas were given to Wellesley College in 1976, and are described in Part I. The Y Otros Poemas subseries here contains additional working manuscripts and clean copies of the poems from the first and second editions of Y Otros Poemas. The "Works by other authors" subseries contains material Jorge Guillén may have collected for possible use in anthologies. One, labeled "Antologia I and II," is a collection of sixteenth and seventeenth century Spanish poetry (folders 149-153). The second, "Textos Literarios: Paginas Ajenas," is a collection of contemporary prose and poetry (folders 154-158) which may have been meant for an anthology or simply as a personal collection of writings by friends. The third carpeta, labeled "J.G. Historia literaria" (folders 159-160) contains material on Ruben Dario, Larra, and Azorin.

The correspondence is almost entirely comprised of letters to Guillén's family.