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DIED. Vicente Aleixandre, 86, sickly, solitary Spanish poet who won the 1977 Nobel Prize for Literature for such volumes as La Destructión o el Amor (1935) and Historia del Corazon (1954), which dwelt on themes of love, death and eternity, often employing striking mystical or surrealistic metaphors from nature; of kidney failure; in Madrid. An invalid from his mid-20s, when he contracted recurrent kidney tuberculosis, Aleixandre became part of the Generation of 1927, a brilliant group of young poets that was sundered by the 1936-39 civil war; too ill to fight or leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 24, 1984 | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

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