Dámaso Alonso
Dámaso Alonso | |
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Alonso portrait by Josep Pla-Narbona | |
| Born | Dámaso Alonso y Fernández de las Redondas 22 October 1898 Madrid, Spain |
| Died | 25 January 1990 (aged 91) Madrid, Spain |
| Seat d of the Real Academia Española | |
| In office 25 January 1948 – 25 January 1990 | |
| Preceded by | Miguel Asín Palacios |
| Succeeded by | Francisco Rodríguez Adrados |
| Director of the Real Academia Española | |
| In office 5 December 1968 – 26 November 1982 | |
| Preceded by | Vicente García de Diego |
| Succeeded by | Pedro Laín Entralgo |
Dámaso Alonso y Fernández de las Redondas (22 October 1898 – 25 January 1990) was a Spanish poet, philologist and literary critic. Though a member of the Generation of '27, his best-known work dates from the 1940s onwards.