Pedro Salinas (1891-1951) was a romantic poet from Spain. Salinas was born in Madrid 1891 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Romance or romantic can refer to several things. ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... This article is about the Spanish capital. ...

Biography

As a youngster in Madrid, Salinas developed interest in various topics, including law, philosophy and writing. Salinas dreamed of becoming involved in these areas. Law (a loanword from Old Norse lag), in politics and jurisprudence, is a set of rules or norms of conduct which mandate, proscribe or permit specified relationships among people and organizations, provide methods for ensuring the impartial treatment of such people, and provide punishments for those who do not follow... The term Philosophy derives from a combination of the Greek words philos meaning love and sophia meaning wisdom. ... Writing is a process which may refer to two activities: the inscribing characters on a medium, with the intention of forming words and other lingual constructs that represent language and record information, or the creation of information to be conveyed through written language. ...

Pedro Salinas graduated from college with degrees in each of those areas. He then went on to teach in Spain's University of Soborna, and, after a few years there, he accepted a job in the United States, with the Cambridge university. Salinas was one of the university's most famous teachers. A college (Latin collegium) can be the name of any group of colleagues; originally it meant a group of people living together under a common set of rules (con-, together + leg-, law). As a consequence members of colleges were originally styled fellows and still are in some places. ... The city of Cambridge is an old English university town and the regional centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. ...

While in Boston, Salinas befriended many Puerto Ricans, some of them poets. Salinas visited Puerto Rico several times; he loved the area so much that he considered it his second nation. Alternative meanings: Boston (disambiguation) The 18th-century Old State House in Boston is surrounded by tall buildings of the 19th and 20th centuries. ...

Salinas moved to Puerto Rico in 1936, having left his job at Cambridge. He dedicated himself to travel all across Latin America after moving to Puerto Rico, to dictate conferences about his poems. Admired by many in Spain and in Latin America, he was part of a large group of Spaniards that made Puerto Rico their home. 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ...

Pedro Salinas asked to be interred in Puerto Rico before dying. He passed away in 1951, and his remains were buried at a Puerto Rican cemetary. Graves at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York A cemetery is a place (usually an enclosed area of land) in which dead bodies are buried. ...

Poems

Salinas published a number of famous poems. Among them:

• Aqui (Here)
• Ayer te Bese en los Labios (I Kissed Your Lips Yesterday)
• El Alma Tenias (You Had a Soul)
• Fue Como Beso o Llanto? (Did you Feel Like Kissing or Like Crying?)
• Horizontal, si te Quiero (I Honestly Love you)
• Largo Lamento (Long Suffering)
• Razon de Amor (Reason of Love)
• Presagios (Predictions)

In Aqui, Sallinas actually mentioned the city of Amsterdam, Holland. Salinas published a considerable number of poems, including the aforementioned ones and others. Amsterdam Location Country The Netherlands Province North Holland Population 739. ... Holland is the common name in English referring to the Kingdom of the Netherlands (or exclusively its European part)--although this is incorrect from a Dutch perspective. ...

See also

List of Spaniards This is a list of Spaniards that are famous or notable. ...

External Links

amediavoz.com, in Spanish (http://amediavoz.com/salinas.htm)