El núcleo poético catalán de la segunda generación de posguerra en la obra poética de Jaime Ferrán

Abstract Jaime Ferrán was a central, first, and last representative of the Catalan group of poets of the so-called “Generation of 1950,” the “Mid-Century,” or the “Generation of Friendship,” as he christened it. A group of poet-friends bound by profound and extensive interaction—personal as well as literary—connected him to Alfonso Costafreda, and, with him, to Carlos Barral, and later to José Agustín Goytisolo and Jaime Gil de Biedma, among others. Ferrán served as the principal paladin of the group in its beginning, both in a literary capacity (he presented the group in his Antología parcial) and on a personal level. He became the dedicated poetic chronicler of the group, in parallel to the prose chronicler, Carlos Barral. The literary coordinates on which the group is based are the cult of the word and the cult of friendship. The shared, uninterrupted, and recurrent verbal interaction among them became their “collective voice.” And the cult of friendship, which marked all their trajectories, leads Ferrán to re-create and poeticize the group’s history, which becomes one of the thematic axes of his oeuvre throughout his poetry, especially in his book Libro de Alfonso.