THE GENERATION OF '27, GOLDEN TRADITION

For decades now, scholars have researched the aesthetic inspirations refl ected in the poetry of the Generation of '27. Undoubtedly, the Avant-Garde movement infl uenced their poetics and the way they conceived art as a whole. At the same time, the poets of this group were avid readers of the verses of their own literary tradition. Although Gongora became a symbol of this, the poets of '27 transcended Gongorismo very early. The purpose of this article is to illustrate how all the aforementioned manifests in the poetry written during the 1920s and the 1930s, especially, the way Garcilaso's poetry was incorporated into their cultural spectrum.