Pedro Salinas

Pedro Salinas

November 27, 1891 – December 04, 1951
Place of Birth: Madrid, Spain
Place of Death: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

Pedro Salinas y Serrano (27 November 1891 – 4 December 1951) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27, as well as a university teacher, scholar and literary critic. In 1937, he delivered the Turnbull lectures at Johns Hopkins University. These were later published under the title Reality and the Poet in Spanish Poetry.