Las cartas de Pedro Salinas a su musa: el diario de escritura de La voz a ti debida.

Abstract

The recently unveiled letters of Pedro Salinas to Katherine Reding Whitmore have initiated new paths in Salinian studies. Among its many novelties, perhaps one of the most important is that these letters—which run parallel to the feverish creative state undergone by Salinas from 1932 to 1936—allow us to take a closer look at the forging of his best love poetry books. The epistolary is a sort of "writing diary" of his most celebrated poetry book, La voz a ti debida. In this article we comment on all the instances in which the letters contain preliminary versions and glosses of the poems that would later appear in the famous book of 1933. We also approach first-hand information about the controversies risen upon the publication of the book, as well as its warm reception by the critics contemporary to the author.