Poet. He was a poet, who was in Spain at the start of the Spanish Civil War. At that point, he moved to the United States, where he taught at Wellesley College in Massachusetts and John Hopkins University in Baltimore. His 1937 Turnbull lectures from his time at John Hopkins University were published as "Reality and the Poet in Spanish Poetry." Studying law and history at the Colegio Hispano-Francés before moving on to the Instituto Nacional de Segunda Enseñanza, he graduated successfully in both courses in 1913. He published his poems in magazines while in college. After relocating to Paris, he was a lecturer at the Collège de Sorbonne in the University of Paris until 1917, receiving his Doctorate. Being part of the last of the poets prior to the Spanish Civil War, he was a member of the "Generation of '27." He taught at the University of Seville starting in 1918; between 1922 and 1923 he taught in Cambridge in England; and returning to Spain, he taught from 1923 to 1925 at Murcia and staying at other facilities in Spain until the Civil War before going to the United States in exile. In 1940 he was offered a permanent position at John Hopkins. Starting in 1943 he taught for three years at the University of Puerto Rico, but returned to Johns Hopkins in 1946 remaining there until his death. Among his books: "Seguro Azar," "Fábula y Signo," "La Voz a ti Debida," and "Todo Más Claro." While in Paris, he married and had two children. In 1932 he began an affair with a young North American student. He dedicated his poetic trilogy "La voz a ti debida", "Razon de amor" and "Largo lamento" to her. She left Spain and married in 1939. She severed all contact with the poet, yet he continued to contact her until 1947. Although he published a few less-known proses, he wrote in 1950 about the atomic bomb in "La bomba incredible." He published a dozen plays that are unknown to the English-speaking population. Many of his lectures were published in essay form. His last three poems were published posthumously in 1954. Many of his poems have been translated to English. He is most recognized as a poet and a scholar of Spanish literature.