Miguel Hernández's first book, Perito en Lunas, published in 1933, gives us the image of a shepherd apprentice to the poet. The young man had returned to his native Orihuela after a stay in Madrid marked by the influence of the Góngora Generation of '27 and resolved to continue reading and writing poetry, even though family tradition marked his destiny as a shepherd. Hernández faithfully represents the pedagogical spirit of the Institución Libre de Enseñanza, which understands culture as the key to the progress of the people. With the coup d'état of 1936, that dream was shattered, but not Hernández's commitment to the ideals of social justice and the defense of freedom. His poems became more demanding, which would earn him the nickname of Poet of the People. He shepherds and reads, writes and loves, fights and mourns the death of his son, and writes, writes... His most intimate verses were born in some of the many prisons through which he passed, increasingly ill, until the day of his death in March 1942.