Spain, take this cup from me
Title page for España, aparta de mí este cáliz (1939) | |
| Author | César Vallejo |
|---|---|
Publication date | 1939 |
Spain, take this cup from me (Spanish: España, aparta de mí este cáliz) is a collection of poems written by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo in the final months of 1937, framed within socialist realism and published after his death in 1939.
The collection comprises a set of fifteen poems, the last of which gives the title to the work. It corresponds to the last period of Vallejo's poetic production, contemporary with the last "Poemas humanos", but the author himself wanted it to form a separate collection of poems, whose unity resided in its theme, inspired by the Spanish Civil War that bled the Iberian Peninsula dry in 1936. The collection of poems was already organized and ready to be submitted to the press at the time of Vallejo's death (April 1938), although the version that says it was still being corrected is false.
In 1994 Harold Bloom included España, Aparta de Mí Este Cáliz in his list of influential works of the Western Canon.