Jiménez, Juan Ramón (hwän rämōn` hēmā`nāth), 1881–1958, Spanish lyric poet, b. Andalusia, studied at the Univ. of Seville. In his youth Jiménez was influenced by the French symbolists; he wrote the romantic Almas de violeta in 1900. He later turned to greater simplicity of style in Diario de un poeta recién casado [diary of a recently married poet]. Later collections include Unidad (1925), Sucesión (1932), and Presente (1935). During the civil war he left Spain and lived for many years in the United States, Cuba, and, finally, Puerto Rico. Jiménez wrote some 32 volumes of poetry. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956. For English translations see Platero and I (1956) and Three Hundred Poems, 1903–53 (1962).

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See studies by H. T. Young (1967) and M. Coke-Enguídanos (1982).

Jiménez, Juan Ramón

(born Dec. 24, 1881, Moguer, Spain—died May 29, 1958, San Juan, P.R.) Spanish poet. His early poetry reflects the influence of Rubén Darío; this highly emotional style gave way to a more austere tone c. 1917. He achieved popularity in America with Platero and I (1917), a prose story of a man and his donkey. During the Spanish Civil War (1936–39), he allied himself with Republican forces; after their defeat he moved to Puerto Rico, where he spent most of the rest of his life. His poetic output was immense. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1956.