Certainly, Poems Such as Salmo I…

Certainly, poems such as Salmo I, La hora de Dios, El buitre de Prometeo, Alborada espiritual, ¡Perdón!, Vencido, Las siete palabras y dos más, or sonnets such as Al destino, Fe, and Resignación are not from Góngora or Lope de Vega. And if, in them, Unamuno showed himself to be “more philosopher than poet,” what, then, is the poetic quality that such verses lack? Or rather: in what sense would the poetic verve of those authors be superior to that of Unamuno? The truth is that, in the aforementioned poems, the expression could not be more vigorous, nor the motivation more authentic. And if that does not place Unamuno in the first echelon of Spanish poets, perhaps it would be convenient to create a new group to include him—and this would be the group of poets whose reading is most meaningful to the reader.