Luis Cernuda and Friedrich Hölderlin: the Greek mythology as cosmovision

Abstract

This article analyses the presence of Greek mythology in the poetry of Luis Cernuda, a cosmovision that the Sevillian took from the German romantic Friedrich Hölderlin, whom he had read and even translated. Firstly, we will study the way paganism is reflected in Cernuda’s verses and in his conception of world and writing. After that, we will approach the matter from a diachronic perspective, that is to say, how Hellenism turns up in La Realidad y el Deseo and how it gradually fades away. When needed, we will establish parallelisms between Hölderlin’s poetic thought and that of Cernuda.