The most
defining feature in his compositions is the metaphysic search around the Death,
the time the human being and God.
José Luis Hidalgo lost his mother
very early and this circumstance would affect him deeply and is present in some
of his first poems. In 1929, he moved to his uncle’s Don Casimiro Iglesias
house, where he spends his childhood and youth.
In 1934,
when he was 15, he starts publishing his first compositions mainly tales and
greguerias in the Impulsor in Torrelavega.
His interest
in literature and modern art formed him as an early painter and writer, he made
speeches about poetry of “vanguarde” in the Library of his city. This artistic
side makes him take part as a poster designer in the popular Olympics in Barcelona (July 1936) where
he is taken by the revolution and civil-war.
In his home
city, he would workas a teacher in Santander and Torrelavega.
In 1937, he
write “Songs For Children”. In 1938, he was forced to go to the Army, and he is
sent to Pamplona from this period are the poems “Message in the Air”, “City”,
“10 poems by the sea”, where you can see the creationist and surrealist
influence.
In 1939, he
was sent to Extremadura and Andalucia, where he was ordered to take the census
of the dead people of the civil-war, this will influence him terribly and this
is where he starts his worry about death.
His last
period is made in Valencia, where he studies drawing and paiting in the Art
School of San Carlos, there he became a friend
of Ricardo Blasco and Jorge Campos, a group which we create the magazine
“Corcel”, Together they take part in literary meetings as the one in Bar
Galicia and They meet poets like Vicente Gaos.
In 1943, he
finishes his studies and travels to Madrid
where he opts to the prize Adonais with his book “Root”. Finally, José Hierro
lives with him in Valencia
due to political problems. The town
Hall of Torrelavega,
named a street after him, because the famous poet made his first exhibitions in
the popular Library of Torrelavega.
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