References
- Stendhal . 1964 . Le Rouge et le noir , 380 Paris : Garnier-Flammarion .
- 1981 . Revolution and Tradition: The Poetry of Rafael Alberti , 47 Valencia/Chapel Hill : Albatros . Pieter Wesseling comments on negative critical responses to Alberti's political poetry
- de Marichal , Solita Salinas . 1975 . El mundo poético de Rafael Alberti , Madrid : Gredos . In addition to the outright opposition of critics such as Ricardo Gullon and C. B. Morris, a dismissive attitude is implicit in
- 1984 . Multiple Spaces: The Poetry of Rafael Alberti , 143 – 44 . London : Tamesis . which goes no further than Sobre los angeles; in Geoffrey Connell, a committed albertista who looks no further than Sermones y moradas; and again in Salvador Jiménez Fajardo who comments on just one Civil-War poem in
- Nantell , Judith . 1986 . Rafael Alberti's Poetry of the Thirties: The Poet's Public Voice , Athens , , Georgia : Univ. of Georgia . Besides Wesseling, recent admirers who comment in depth on Alberti's political poetry include
- Millân , Antonio Jiménez . 1984 . La poesía de Rafael Alberti (1930-39) , Cadiz : Diputación Provincial de Cádiz .
- Bowra , C. M. 1966 . Poetry and Politics , 125 Cambridge : Cambridge U. P. .
- Havard , Robert G. 1988 . From Romanticism to Surrealism, Seven Spanish Poets , 242 – 79 . Cardiff : Univ. of Wales . Materio-mysticism and related issues are considered in the chapter on Alberti in
- Harris , Derek , ed. 1996 . “ 'Christ, the Paranoiac, the Surrealist, the Communist, and Rafaël Albert!' ” . In Changing Times in Hispanic Culture , Univ. of Aberdeen . See also my essay; forthcoming
- Neruda , Pablo . 1962 . “ 'Liegada a Madrid de Ia Brigada Internacional' ” . In Obras completas , 2nd ed. , 261 Buenos Aires : Losada .
- Francis , Hywel . 1984 . Miners against Fascism: Wales and the Spanish Civil War , 240 London : Lawrence and Wishart . Picton's letters, along with those of many other Brigaders, may be read in the South Wales Miners' Library, Sketty Road, Swansea. Picton's death is mentioned in; Having served in the First World War and with limited success as a prize-fighter, Picton was an out-of-work collier, divorced and the wrong side of forty when the Spanish War broke out. He addressed his letters to George Thomas, a communist agent in Treherbert: I would like to tell you what part we are but you know Comrade it will only be ÷ off so there, you are right George we have got the B___ on the run now and will keep them going, know the old saying 'No Pass Around' … We had a Hell of a Do George at a place called Brunete, I had a crack in the Neck but am OK … We are at another Front now, the B___ are bombing the townes around here like Hell now, its down all the Dam time, but still George we are giving the rotten B___ beans all the time … the boy Foulkes is going a little bit crackers but I have warned him if he dont act when in the tight and anyone else that it will be too bad for him, he should be sent from here as he jumps at every bang and theres a lot of banging on times I can tell you
- Spender , Stephen . 1951 . World within World , 245 London : Hamish Hamilton .
- Spender , Stephen . World within World 241
- Spender , Stephen . 1978 . The Thirties and After: Poetry, Politics, People (1933-75) , 78 London : Macmillan .