Juan Ram??n Jim??nez and the Illinois Trio: Sandburg, Lindsay, Masters

Juan Ram??n Jim??nez's extensive reading in British, Anglo-Irish, and North American poetry has received careful attention, but his interest in the major poets of Illinois has so far merited only passing comments. This paper intends to remedy that situation, first, by presenting a brief chronology of Jim??nez's interest in Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931), Edgar Lee Masters (1865-1950), and Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), and second, by pointing to analogies and parallels that help account for the Spanish poet's interest in poets whose sensibility and imagination differ markedly from his own.published or submitted for publicationis peer reviewe