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Jose Antonio Munoz Rojas (1909-2009) lived to be almost a hundred. His first book was published in 1929 and his last in 1997, Objetos perdidos, about the trials of old age, for which he was awarded Spain's national poetry prize. The reasons for this late recognition are related to the history of Spain in the last century. Munoz Rojas came from Antequera in the south. His family were landowners. At the outset of the Civil War, his brother was killed, and he found himself in hiding and in fear of his life in Malaga. The story of his rescue by two Cambridge dons (he had been in Cambridge for the academic year 1935-36, researching connections between English metaphysical poets and Spanish poets of the Golden Age) is told in his autobiography. In the post-war years, he worked for Banco Urquijo in Madrid and helped fellow writers of whatever persuasion. Munoz Rojas was an anglophile. He translated T. S. Eliot, Gerard Manley Hopkins and other English poets. Amongst his most highly regarded works are two books published in the 1950s, Cantos a Rosa (1954), intricately woven love poems; and the prose poems of Las cosas del campo (1951).

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