Octavio Paz y José Bergamín: la historia de una colaboración. Laurel, antología de poesía moderna en lengua española

In 1941, the Mexican publisher Seneca (founded by José Bergamín), under the direction of the poet Xavier Villaurrutia and with the collaboration of Octavio Paz, Emilio Prados and Juan Gil-Albert, published Laurel, an anthology of modern poetry in the Spanish language, which has been considered as the epilogue to a long anthological tradition on both sides of the Atlantic and heir to the one published a few years earlier by Federico de Onís. This work, instead, tries to highlight the originality of Laurel since it responds to a linguistic criterion, the Spanish language, and an aesthetic heritage, Modernism, as common denominators of all the poets that make it up and not to geographic or national criteria.