A look back at Vallejo’s thesis on Romanticism in Spanish poetry

Poetic and aesthetic roots of Los Heraldos Negros

Abstract

This paper is a retrospective look at the thesis of César Vallejo: Romanticism in Spanish poetry, and, it makes us see that, after its support, 1915, it was relegated, undervalued and has not yet deserved from critics Vallejiana, an important and significant attention and assessment for his poetic and literary creation. Over time, Monguió, Larrea, Coyné, González Vigil and some other vallejistas, pointed out the value of this writing for the poetic aesthetics on which the poems of The Black Heralds, extended to Trilce and the rest of his work, including as Premonitory sustenance of the life form so original, unique and painful that the poet assumed. However, despite this valuable contributions, there is a need to value it more objectively and comprehensively and find in its text what we consider the roots of its poetic aesthetics.

In the idea that literature is a process of artistic creation and production, in which several social, cultural and human elements converge and are energized, we address the problem based on the meth­odology of complexity, in which we can mobilize the categories of intra, inter and extra textuality, and obtain a broad, holistic and comprehensive vision of the process of poetic and literary creation of César Vallejo.