Cernuda relates in his Historial de un libro the stories connected with the making of the compilation of his poetical works, La realidad y el deseo. Following this book (Historial de un libro) we understand the true sen se of his poems. W e notice too that the ancient Greeks are a very important and a basic substract of his poetic conception. In this paper we have the opportunity of seeing how in La realidad y el deseo, from the first section "Primeras Poesías" to the one called "Donde habite el olvido", the Greeks myths and sorne kind of Greek sensibility are strategic points in his perception of the "poetic fact."Cernuda relates in his Historial de un libro the stories connected with the making of the compilation of his poetical works, La realidad y el deseo. Following this book (Historial de un libro) we understand the true sen se of his poems. W e notice too that the ancient Greeks are a very important and a basic substract of his poetic conception. In this paper we have the opportunity of seeing how in La realidad y el deseo, from the first section "Primeras Poesías" to the one called "Donde habite el olvido", the Greeks myths and sorne kind of Greek sensibility are strategic points in his perception of the "poetic fact.
