Robert Lima (born 1935) is a Cuban-born American poet, literary critic, bibliographer, playwright, editor, biographer, and translator. He is a professor emeritus of Spanish and Comparative Literatures at Pennsylvania State University, as well as fellow emeritus of the Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies. Lima is an academician of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española and a corresponding member of the Real Academia Española. Honored as a distinguished alumnus by Villanova University, he was also inducted into the Enxebre Orden da Vieira in Spain and dubbed Knight Commander in the Order of Queen Isabel of Spain by King Juan Carlos I. His 40-year career as a university professor and writer was heralded in A Confluence of Words. Studies in Honor of Robert Lima, published by Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs in 2011.
The life and times of Ramón del Valle-Inclán are depicted in this biography, the first in English. Several illustrations accompany the text. A selected bibliography of critical studies and an appendix of the Spanish originals cited complete the book.
The writings on the life and works of and the prolific writings of Ramón del Valle-Inclán are listed in this bibliography, which is illustrated with notable editions and drawings.
