Editing Luis Cernuda (section)

==Translations==

During the writing of ''Invocaciones'', he met the German philosopher and linguist [[Jean Gebser|Hans Gebser]], who was living and working in Madrid in the Ministry of Education. This was at a time when Cernuda was beginning to become enthused by the poetry of [[Hölderlin]] and, with Gebser's help he began to translate selected poems. These appeared in ''Cruz y Raya'' in early 1936.<ref name="Cernuda641" /> Because his knowledge of German was rudimentary, he made an error in translating the final line of one of the poems. A second edition was published in Mexico in 1942 but, since Bergamín did not advise him of this and Cernuda himself was living in Scotland at the time, he was unable to correct this and other infelicities. Gebser himself, together with Roy Hewin Winstone, was compiling an anthology of contemporary Spanish poetry translated into German and Cernuda tried to get him to exclude any poems by Guillén, Salinas or Dámaso Alonso, on the basis that they were teachers rather than poets. He only succeeded in getting Alonso excluded and the anthology was published in Berlin in 1936.<ref name="Taravillo1313">Taravillo: Luis Cernuda anos espanoles p 313</ref>

In addition, he translated a set of 6 poems by Eluard, published in ''Litoral'' in 1929. In 1938, with the collaboration of Stanley Richardson, he translated 2 sonnets by Wordsworth which were published in ''Hora de España''. He also translated poems by Blake, Yeats and Keats, which were published in ''Romance'' in 1940. Three poems by Yeats, Browning and Marvell were included in the first volume of ''Poesía y literatura''.