[Curiosities] Five Latin American poets with a global legacy

[Noticias ALEJANDRO]

The Latin American and Caribbean region has been prosperous, in any of its languages, in providing poets and poets to the history of world poetry that this March 21 commemorates its universal day. Here we show five representatives of a select group.

1. José Martí (Cuba, 1853-1895)
For Cubans, José Martí has the greatness of George Washington, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman, combined, with all those outstanding qualities. in one person. Born in 1853 in Havana, Cuba, Martí wrote most of his work in prose, although his poetry for all ages is known throughout the region and the world.

Of his work, the collections of poems "Versos Sencillos" and "Versos Libres" stand out, as well as a mass of hundreds of poems of greater or lesser length that created a new era in Latin American and Caribbean literature.

 

 

From "Los zapaticos de rosa" to "Yugo y Estrella" the work of the Cuban National Hero transcends his time.

2. Pablo Neruda (Chile, 1902-1973)
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971, this poet gained fame for his collection of “Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.” His work has a totally human approach, where he carries out a very deep study of the condition of man and his desire to find in poetry a source of relief for all the torments of human nature.

Neruda is also known as an icon of the poetry of his time and a great influence on the authors of his time, so that Harold Bloom, American critic and literary theorist, went so far as to say in this regard "no poet in the Western Hemisphere of our century admits of comparison with it.”

 

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