Enrique de Mesa, the Madrid poet
Enrique de Mesa was born in 1878 in Madrid, was a poet of the generation of 98 and theatrical critic, educated in the ILE (teaching-free institution) and worked as a public instruction officer, also dedicated himself to the study of historical-poetic research, and made an essay on poetry and poets in the court of John II, thus adopted the custom of foreign works, which applied the playwrights of their time, making those works also with Mecquis participated in the project .
In 1903 he won a literary prize offered by the Madrid newspaper and decided to devote himself to letters, and we can define his style as clear and simple. He finished married to Carmen Gallardo, and had a son named Diego, later they were exiled in Mexico, where he died in 1929.
His first poems were the portrait of Don Quixote and Earth and Soul, the latter is a short series of impressions of the Sierra del Guadarrama, located in Ávila, this mountain range is provided with an attractive nature, abundant pines and oaks;Next to this, he was one of the founders of the Peñalara group.
In 1911 he published the Castilian Songbook with an essay by Ramón Pérez de Ayala and years later he won the Fastenrath Prize in 1916, with his work
The silence of the Cartuja published in Madrid, is a poems that reflects the sensations of the great poet referring to the Sierra del Guadarrama and the monastery of El Paular was awarded by the SAR (Royal Spanish Academy), this was founded by Felipe V in 1713since his request was the best dictionary for imitation of the French and Italian dictionary.
Among its theme, its interest in family and everyday issues stands out, although it will also deal with love in their poems, accompanied by landscape descriptions. In his poetry the influence of the arciprest of Hita or the Marquis de Santillana is appreciated. He also wrote works such as the inn and the way.
In the inn and the way, the narrative prevails about the sentimental in a formulation of the landscape and the Castilian culture that is combined with the influence of Rubén Darío and with the reaction to the classical tradition.
As for his love poetry we can highlight his erotic poem published in 1928 where he speaks without censorship of his desire for a woman with black eyes and white skin, during the poem of 22 verses expresses the corresponding lust in a passionate way, doing allusion to the fireand to the body of the beloved.
The author’s work as a theatrical critic if he is collected in his work apostilled at the scene, which was his latest work published in 1929.
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