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A literature review regarding Gertrudis Segovia Álvarez shows this author has been forgotten from the critics despite being recognized as a successful writer at the beginning of the twentieth century. This paper aims archival research related to her stay in the Canary Islands and the influence of this time in her work. The findings show the issues Gertrudis Segovia embodied with her feminine identity because of an intellectual and emotional exclusion. Also, it is discovered in this paper the features of being a self-sacrificing woman, the importance of the influence of the masculine role in her life -her father and her husband, and the importance of her recognition by a female audience in the middle of the strong influence of the Catholicism in the social life and the private life as well. All of these features frame her initial recognition as an important author but also the forgetfulness of herself and her work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reviews the tension between presencia común [common spaces] and amazement which shape José Manuel Arango's poetry. On one hand, this tension embodies the poet's subjective experience and on the other hand reality as the essential feature of his poetry. As one of his interpreter states that Cantiga (1987) is a rewritten work of two previous poems, this paper suggests a critical review from the context of his writing to the theoretical framework regarding common spaces. The result of this research shows that Cantiga determines a poet inserted in the world plentily observed by him and then names it. From this point of view, this José Manuel Arango's work expresses the division between the poetic subject and the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]