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Selected works

Poetry

*''Gargola'' (1923) *''Conjunto'' (1928) *''Fuego a Bordo'' (1932) *''Plural Belleza'' (1936) *''Olvido Apasionado'' (1941) *''Tiempo Favorable'' (1948) *''El Solitario y la Tierra'' (1961) *''El Desalojado'' (1969) *''Poesia Entera'' (1973)

Novels

*''La Luz no esta Lejos'' (1945) *''El Viento en las Ruinas'' (1946) *''La Danza y el Llanto'' (1952) *''Cristo en Torremolinos'' (1963)

Essays

*"Amarilis" (1935) *"Compromiso y Desercion" (1959) *"El Principe de Este Siglo. La Literatura Moderna y el Demonio" (1967)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Souviron, Jose Maria 1904 births 1973 deaths 20th-century Spanish poets 20th-century Spanish male writers