Two unpublished poems by Emilio Alarcos Llorach

Abstract

Such crytical work aims to show the originality’s features of two poems –unpublished until now-, written by the most known philologist Emilio Alarcos Llorach (1922-1998). Those inedited poems have been identified by Dr. Miguel Alarcos Martínez as Mc. ‘ValVad’ (1971d) and Mc. ‘VqV’ (1988a), that is, with a signatures created by himself; even both poems belong to an Alarquian poetry’s corpus, which had not been discovered until Centenary’s philologist (1922-2022) and by his own son (Alarcos Jr.), who indentified it as Mc. Poet. ‘S.M. Mest.’ (1949-1993).

In the other hand, such new corpus from E. Alarcos’poetry links to the material yet published –and composed since 1949-, whose title is Mester de poesía (2006), because the Mc. Poet. ‘S.M. Mest.’ (1949-1993) is a poetical selection reunited and stablished by his own autor, when he was alive, by using mecanographical writing (Mc.), which supposes, not only the Mester’s original compositive distribution, but also especially its more complete and definitive versión (until present) that the poet-philologist could really finish and, thus, he could share in his posterity, in the sense of a work, which is yet over (in fact, the signature’s abreviation comes from a Latin formulation, whose meaning is a huge and mainly totality, i.e., ‘Summa Maior’).

We should add that both inedited poems, although they show Alarquian poetry’s features well know -by regarding to poetic work published-, however, shall offer an innovative image of such creator in verse, because E. Alarcos Llorach explores rhytms, influences and styles in his expression, which make a nottorial difference to his previous material (vid. 2006 and 2012). Therefore, through our commentary of those poems, the reader would discover an E. Alarcos poet, who is, not only a composer with a very rich versality, but also a genuine Classic from XX Century’s Spanish Liric poetry.