Metal Butterflies and Poisonous Lights: The Language of Surrealism in Lorca, Alberti, Cernuda and Aleixandre.(Review)

From: The Modern Language Review | Date: July 1, 1999| Author: Havard, Robert | Copyright information

Metal Butterflies and Poisonous Lights: The Language of Surrealism in Lorca, Alberti, Cernuda and Aleixandre. By DEREK HARRIS. Anstruther, Fife: La Sirena. 1998. 246 pp. 24.95 [pounds sterling] (14.95 [pounds sterling] paperbound).

Few critics are better equipped to assess the linguistic traits of Surrealism than Derek Harris, who has long been recognized as a fine analyst and close reader of Spanish poetry. This groundbreaking study of four poets focuses on 'the processes i...

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