Greatest Poetry By Hispanic Writers
2023
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This book looks at some of the initiatives taken by Hispanic poets to deal with the expanding global cultural market. These poets employ a range of literary techniques, from more conventional to extremely experimental approaches to poetry. Juana Ines de la Cruz, Gabriela Mistral, Andres Bello, Ruben Dario, and Adela Zamudio are a few of the poets in this anthology.
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Authors
Gabriela Mistral
Author · 20 books
Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga (pseudonym: Gabriela Mistral), a Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945 "for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world." Some central themes in her poems are nature, betrayal, love, a mother's love, sorrow and recovery, travel, and Latin American identity as formed from a mixture of Indian and European influences.
Ruben Dario
Author · 19 books
Nicaraguan poet Félix Rubén García Sarmiento initiated and epitomizes Spanish literary modernism. Dario is in all possibility the poet who has had the greatest and most lasting influence in twentieth century Spanish literature. He has been praised as the prince of Castilian letters.
Andrés Bello
Author · 2 books
Andrés de Jesús María y José Bello López was a Venezuelan humanist, poet, lawmaker, philosopher, educator and philologist, whose political and literary works constitute an important part of Spanish American culture. Bello is featured on the old 2,000 Venezuelan bolívar and the 20,000 Chilean peso notes. There is also a decoration, the Venezuelan Order of Andrés Bello.
