This dissertation has the objective of carrying out a comprehensive study on the poetic work in exile of Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón (Spain, 1881-Puerto Rico, 1958), Nobel Prize for Literature 1956. He had written an extensive work of poetry and prose when he began his exile in the American continent. The Spanish Civil War caused the poet and his wife to arrive in New York in 1936. They lived the years of exile in the United States, Cuba and Puerto Rico, where Jiménez developed an extraordinary poetic work. Based on partial investigations, the dissertation attempts to provide a first general response to a pending issue in Hispanic studies due to the author's influence on Latin American and Spanish literature.
The research focused on the study of the lyrical canon, the analysis of the texts and the evaluation of the corresponding poetics. The analysis of lyrical texts studied the changes that occurred in the author's style, writing technique and thinking. The study of poetics carried out an exploration of the theoretical and philosophical foundations on which the work of the poet was based. The research showed that Jiménez's contributions to Spanish-language literature are largely due to the experiences he had in the Western Hemisphere. He also pointed out that the breadth of the author's theoretical thinking is a significant part of his historical contribution that will need further development because it is a subject that has been little studied.
Therefore, the conclusions revolve, first of all, around the quality of his work and the contributions he made. Second, the conclusions take into account the contribution of his aesthetic thinking. This study tries to understand what is Jiménez’s true position in the literary and cultural history of the Hispanic countries from the mid 20th century to the present.