Vicente Aleixandre

Vicente Aleixandre

Sombra del paraíso

Sombra del paraíso / Shadow of Paradise

Poetry , 1944

RBA

Nobel Prize Poetry

Begun in 1939, barely four months after the close of the Spanish Civil War, these poems by the Nobel Laureate poet Vicente Aleixandre were written during a period of hardship and despair. In spite of his surroundings Aleixandre created the splendor of the shadow of a lost paradise that consisted of memory, nostalgia, yearning and illusion.