Philip W. Silver, Professor of Spanish at Columbia University, is one of the foremost scholars, editors and translators of Spanish literature, particularly in the area of contemporary Spanish poetry, the poetry of Luis Cernuda, Ortega y Gasset's philosophy, and recent Spanish politics. His publications include a translation of Fictive Discourse and the Structures of Literature, by Felix Martinez-Bonati (Cornell University Press, 1981) and his original study Luis Cernuda: el poeta en su levenda (Castalia, 1996).
