social conservatism. In August 1936, at the start of the Spanish civil war, Ramón Ruiz Alonso, who was a member of the CEDA, arrested Federico García Lorca. The poet had taken refuge in the Rosales house, thus believing that he was safe from reprisals, since there were prominent Falangist members in that family. Luis Rosales could not avoid his arrest and subsequent execution despite the friendship he had with Lorca and his position within the Granada right wing. In that same fateful year, Joaquín Amigo, professor of philosophy and member of the intellectuals who created Gallo magazine and very close to both, was also assassinated. In this case, Joaquín Amigo was assassinated by the Republicans, throwing him down the Tajo de Ronda, while he was stationed in that Malaga town as a high school professor. These two deaths mark the life, both personal and literary, of Rosales, in whose work —both in A face in each wave and in his unfinished New York after death, and in many other writings, both poetic and essays— are reflected the influences of both friends. In 1937 he published in the newspaper Patria de Granada, the poem «The voice of the dead», probably one of the most important written during the civil war, it chose all the victims of both sides, in which any expression of triumphalism is excluded or exaltation. From that same year Rosales collaborated in the Falangist magazine Jerarquía. He also collaborated in the newspaper Arriba España and in the Escorial magazine. He was editorial secretary and director of Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos. Starting in 1978, he directed Nueva Estafeta, the only magazine of its time because it included among its collaborations works written in the different languages of Spain (Spanish, Catalan, Basque or Galician). Ideologically, he evolved from the authoritarian ideas of his youth to democratic positions in his maturity. Pablo Neruda said of him: At the end of 1949 and the beginning of 1950, he participated in the "poetic mission" with the poets Antonio Zubiaurre, Leopoldo Panero and the ambassador Agustín de Foxá, who toured different Hispanic American countries (among others Honduras) prior to the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between these countries and the Franco regime. In 1962 he joined the Hispanic Society of America and the Royal Spanish Academy, although he did not read his entrance speech, Pasión y muerte del Conde de Villamediana, until 1964. He was an active