WRITER

Pedro Salinas

1891 - 1951

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Pedro Salinas y Serrano (27 November 1891 – 4 December 1951) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27, as well as a university teacher, scholar and literary critic. In 1937, he delivered the Turnbull lectures at Johns Hopkins University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pedro Salinas has received more than 86,330 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Pedro Salinas is the 3,125th most popular writer (down from 2,725th in 2019), the 1,025th most popular biography from Spain (down from 901st in 2019) and the 112th most popular Spanish Writer.

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  • 52.63

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.81

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  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

La poesía de Rubén Darío
Criticism and interpretation
1948
Poems
1956
Literatura española siglo XX
Spanish literature, History and criticism
1941
Reality and the poet in Spanish poetry
History and criticism, Poets, Spanish, Reality
1940
Jorge Manrique
Criticism and interpretation
1947
El defensor
1948

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pedro Salinas ranks 3,125 out of 7,302. Before him are Nahum Goldmann, Joan Maragall, Johan Borgen, Fumiko Hayashi, Gisèle Halimi, and Demyan Bedny. After him are Yury Tynyanov, Antoine de Rivarol, Salimbene di Adam, Marianne Williamson, Erri De Luca, and Charles de Saint-Évremond.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Pedro Salinas ranks 126. Before him are Ronald Colman, Boris Iofan, Alfred Neubauer, Sultan al-Atrash, Wan Waithayakon, and John W. McCormack. After him are Damaskinos of Athens, Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, José Enrique Varela, Zdeněk Fierlinger, Vladislav Vančura, and Vladimir Albitsky. Among people deceased in 1951, Pedro Salinas ranks 90. Before him are István Friedrich, Bernhard Kellermann, Vilhelm Bjerknes, Edgar Rubin, Fritz Busch, and Fumiko Hayashi. After him are Robert Broom, José Enrique Varela, Selim Palmgren, André Gobert, Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, and Reggie Walker.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Pedro Salinas ranks 1,025 out of 3,355. Before him are Antonio García Gutiérrez (1813), Juan Alonso (1927), Santiago Casares Quiroga (1884), Joan Capdevila (1978), Joan Maragall (1860), and Luis Rodríguez (1948). After him are Abbad II al-Mu'tadid (1012), Ramón Grosso (1943), José Luis Perales (1945), Tomás de Zumalacárregui (1788), María Mercader (1918), and Jerónimo Saavedra (1936).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Pedro Salinas ranks 112. Before him are José Martínez Ruiz (1873), Juan Ruiz (1283), Wallada bint al-Mustakfi (null), Ibn Zaydún (1003), Antonio García Gutiérrez (1813), and Joan Maragall (1860). After him are Ignacio Ramonet (1943), Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo (1450), Robert de Nola (1500), Ildefonso Falcones (1959), Joan Brossa (1919), and Ramón Chao (1935).

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