Joan Maragall: Poet, intellectual and thinker

Abstract

Joan Maragall (Barcelona, 1860-1911) is an indisputable part of the Catalan canon of contemporary poetry. However, his intellectual contributions also came in the field of journalism, through a clear desire to affect his times by acting as an intellectual in the sense that this word acquired from Zola, as well as in his essays with philosophical pretensions. This article aims to spotlight the importance not only of Maragall’s poetic oeuvre but also his journalistic and philosophical output.

Keywords

• joan maragall
• catalan literature
• poetry
• journalism
• philosophy