Miguel d'Ors y la estética de la pequeñez inmensa

This article sets out to explore the aesthetics of immense smallness in the poetic work of Miguel d’Ors (Santiago de Compostela, 1946), one of Spain’s foremost contemporary poets. This is an aspect that has remained constant throughout his extensive literary career and which, until now, had not received critical attention. Taking as a point of departure a brief mention of the term in Octavio Paz’s Children of the Mire, this paper attempts to demonstrate, through the analysis of a representative group of poems taken from the various poetic stages of the Galician author, that this aesthetics implies a peculiar way of perceiving reality (especially natural reality) through which its smallest or most insignificant elements can acquire, in their modest and limited nature, a sublime or transcendent dimen- sion, either as an imaginary redress of the modern split self or as a manifestation of divine grandeur.