"The Poet as Hero: Pedro Salinas and his Theater," by Susan G. Polansky

The Poet as Hero: Pedro Salinas and his Theater, by Susan G. Polansky.  Polansky's study focuses on the poet‐protagonists who animate communication between characters in the plays of Salinas. She investigates how Salinas, a poet living in exile, turned to theater to express nostalgia for his personal past, to find a connection to literary tradition, and to show his concern for the difficulties of modern life. Table of Contents: ACKNOWLEDGMENTSPREFACEINTRODUCTION Part I: The Genesis and Aims of Salinas’s Theater   1 Salinas: Poet and Correspondent     Salinas’s Letters to Margarita     Salinas’s Letters to Jorge Guillén     Salinas’s Letters to Katherine Reding Whitmore  2 Salinas: Poet and Essayist     Poets and their Vision of Reality in Salinas’s Studies of Poets and Poetry     Salinas’s Studies of Jorge Manrique and Rubén Darío     Salinas’s Essays on Jorge Carrera Andrade and Federico García Lorca     Modernity, Communication, and Theater: El defensor and La responsabilidad del esc