Carlos Bousoño

Carlos Bousoño Prieto ( Boal, 9 may, 1923) is a spanish poet and a literary critic. His work is frequently related with the postwar literary group. ( for further, Guerra Civíl Española)

Although he was born in Boal, ( Asturias) in 1923, he moved two years laters to Oviedo, where he spent his childhood and his adolescence too. He studied the first two years of Filosophy and Arts degree in Oviedo, and, he moved to Madrid when he was 19; graduating in the Central University ( at the present time, Complutense) with the Extraordinary Prize in 1946. He masteres his degree in 1949 in the same people, being the first to do his master about a still-alive writer. ( Vicente Aleixandre) Soon, in 1950, he's work ( "Vicente Aleixandre's poetry") become successful, recognised, still now, as one of the best and deepest ( if not the most) works about Vicente Aleixandre's poetry.

His passion for poetry, together with his intelligence made possible his early raid inside the world of literary theory. In 1952, he wrote " Theory of the poetic expression", in which he studies in deep the secrets of the poetic mystery. Soon, he became a banner of spanish literature and of literary critic.

Thanks to the worlwide acknowledgement he received after all this work, he got offers from some north americans universities, where he became teacher of Spanish Literature. ( Wellesley, Smith, Vanderbilt, Middlesbury, New York University...) After that, he accepted work in the University of Madrid, ( Complutense) where had already studied; there, he became lecturer of Stylist. He's still Honorific ( "Emérito") Lecturer.