Claudio Rodríguez. I.E.S. Río Duero

1. Spanish Poet
Biography

2. CLAUDIORODRIGUEZ
POETA
+ Claudio is the oldest of four brothers.
+ His father died when Claudio was only thirteen
years old, which loads him with family and
economic responsibilities.
+ He studied baccalaureate at Claudio Moyano
High School in Zamora.

3. CLAUDIORODRIGUEZ
POETA
+ In 1949 he published his first poem in a local
newspaper.
+ He wrote “Don de la Ebriedad” when he was
17.
+ “I wrote most of the book walking .I knew the
book by heart and kept repeating, correcting,
modifying, when I walked in the countryside”

4. CLAUDIORODRIGUEZ
POETA
+ In 1951 he got a grant and moved to Madrid.
+ He met poets such as Vicente Aleixandre, who
will be essential in the professional life of this man
born in Zamora. Carlos Bousoño, José Hierro,
José Ángel Valente, etc.
+ A brief relation with the Communist Party cost
him a detention and confinement of several
months in Zamora.

5. CLAUDIORODRIGUEZ
POETA
+ In 1953 he met Clara Miranda with whom he
married in 1959.
+ Also in 1953, he won the prize „‟Adonais‟‟ with
„‟Don de la Ebriedad‟‟.
+ Five years later he published „‟Conjuros‟‟, the
work which confirmed the quality and uniqueness
of the poet.

6. CLAUDIORODRIGUEZ
POETA
+ He got a job as a reader in the UK where he
lived for six years.
+ Later he decided to return to Madrid, where he
worked teaching Spanish Literature to
foreigners.
+In 1965 he published „‟Alianza y Condena‟‟,
Critical Award in 1966.

7. CLAUDIORODRIGUEZ
POETA
+ His family , his classes, his literary and non-
literary friendships, his walks by Madrid, his
summers in Zarautz and his Zamora breaks fill
these years.
+ His writing pace remained slow, but his books
kept on being re-edited.
+ In 1971 C. Bousoño published the complete
works of C.R. Poetry 1953-66.

8. CLAUDIORODRIGUEZ
POETA
+ In 1976 „‟El Vuelo de la Celebración‟‟ sees the
light, and in 1983 „‟Desde mis poemas‟‟, which
brings his four books and which was awarded the
National Prize of Literature.
+ From then on he got fllowing recognition: Castillla
y León Arts Award (1986), R.A.E. member (1987),
Price of Asturias Award and Queen Sofía Prize
American Poetry (1993).

9. CLAUDIORODRIGUEZ
POETA
+ His work is admired, while he is still an example of
sincere humility.
+ In 1991 he published “Casi una Leyenda”
celebrated “unanimousty” by critics.
+ Claudio Rodríguez died in 1999, victim of a
cancer, leaving one last incomplete “Aventura”

10. CLAUDIORODRIGUEZ
POETA
CLAUDIANO LANGUAGE FEATURES
+ Hendecasyllable use white or asonantado
+ Hendecasyllable combinations with seven
syllables (free silva) and Alexandrian
+ Lexicon linked to nature, the rural, working
tools, and colloquial terms

11. CLAUDIORODRIGUEZ
POETA
+ his poetry has a second dimension which we
access through antithesis, paradoxes, questions,
ambiguities or phrases formed by a common noun +
of + an abstract noun (ex "street image" "tempero of
love", "hope scaffold” ) or concrete noun + adjective
abstract (pedestrian light blue)
+ With only five books, the work of Claudio
Rodriguez occupies an essential place in the
twentieth-century Spanish poetry, and it is unique
and impossible to typecast into any trend

12. CLAUDIORODRIGUEZ
POETA
His hometown, Zamora, has dedicated a street,
a library and a high school, but the greatest
tribute we can give him is to read his work and
procure new readers