War & Response: A Spanish-American War Centennial

Fiesta de Aranjuez en honor de Azorín. Madrid: Residencia de Estudiantes, 1915.
(SPL) PQ 6623 .A816 Z5333x

Speeches by Azorín, Ortega y Gasset, poetic eulogies by Antonio Machado, and Juan Ramón Jiménez, and a letter from Baroja, written and delivered at a celebration to honor Azorín for his efforts on behalf of the Generation. Ortega y Gasset, who organized the affair, was younger than the others and is placed in the novecentista generation.

Azorín, 1873-1967.
Andando y pensando; notas de un transeúnte. Madrid: Editorial Paez, 1929.
PQ 6623 .A816 A57 1929

First edition of some later essays by Azorín.

Azorín, 1873-1967.
Los valores literarios. Madrid: Renacimiento, 1913.
PQ 6039 .M33 1913x

First edition of Los valores literarios (1913), dedicated by Azorín to Ortega y Gasset, expressing his belief that it is more important for a critic to examine literary criteria than to maintain the routine of the past.

Azorín, 1873-1967.
Fantasías y devaneos (política, literatura, naturaleza). Madrid: R. Caro Raggio, 1920.
PQ 6623 .A816 F3 1920

This volume of Azorín’s complete works contains essays on literature, the countryside, and politics, written in 1904 but originally printed in newspapers, so that this is virtually their first edition.

Azorín, 1873-1967.
Rivas y Larra; razón social del romanticismo en España. Madrid, Buenos Aires: Renacimiento, 1916.
P 6560 .Z7 1916

First edition of Rivas y Larra (1916), in which Azorín examines the two great Romantic writers in the light of a historical understanding of their times. The best-known manifesto of the Generation of 1898 was a pilgrimage to Larra’s grave organized by Azorín.

Azorín, 1873-1967.
Al margen de los Clásicos. London, New York: Longmans, Green, 1928.
PQ 6065 .M3

First edition of Al margen de los clásicos (1915), dedicated to the famous poet Juan Ramón Jiménez. Azorín’s essays about Spain’s great writers from the Middle Ages to the Romantics focused on what they had to tell us about their land.

Azorín, 1873-1967.
Castilla. Madrid: R. Caro Raggio, 1920.
PQ 6623 .A816 C3 1920

In his introduction to Castilla, Azorín, who possessed a modern, almost Cubist sense of time, writes of his attempt to imprison a particle of the spirit of Castile.