Gaucho Literature
Gaucho literature, also known as gauchesco ("gauchoesque") genre was a literary movement purporting to use the language of the gauchos, comparable to the American cowboy, and reflecting their mentality. Although earlier works have been identified as gauchoesque, the movement particularly thrived from the 1870s to 1920s in Argentina, Uruguay and southern Brazil after which the movement petered out, although some works continued to be written. Gauchoesque works continue to be read and studied as a significant part of Argentine literary history.Henderson, Helene, and Jay P. Pederson, editors, ''Twentieth-Century Literary Movements Dictionary'', Detroit: Omnigraphics Inc., 2000 The movement arose as writers in those countries developed their understanding of their national identities. Three great poets in this trend were, José Hernández, Estanislao del Campo and Hilario Ascasubi. The influence of folk music and a countrified language has always, to some extent, been felt in pop ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Martin Fierro 1894
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The Purple Land
''The Purple Land'' is a novel set in 19th-century Uruguay by William Henry Hudson, first published in 1885 under the title ''The Purple Land that England Lost''. Initially a commercial and critical failure, it was reissued in 1904 with the full title ''The Purple Land, Being One Richard Lamb's Adventures in the Banda Orientál, in South America, as told by Himself''. Towards the end of the novel, the narrator explains the title, "I will call my book ''The Purple Land.'' For what more suitable name can one find for a country so stained with the blood of her children?" Plot summary The novel tells the story of Richard Lamb, a young Englishman who marries a teenage Argentinian girl, Paquita, without asking her father's permission, and is forced to flee to Montevideo, Uruguay with his bride. Lamb leaves his young wife with a relative while he sets off for eastern Uruguay to find work for himself. He soon becomes embroiled in adventures with the Uruguayan gauchos and romances with loc ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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William Henry Hudson
William Henry Hudson (4 August 1841 – 18 August 1922) – known in Argentina as Guillermo Enrique Hudson – was an Anglo-Argentine author, naturalist and ornithologist. Life Hudson was the son of Daniel Hudson and his wife Catherine (), United States settlers of English and Irish origin. He was born and lived his first years in a small estancia called "25 Ombues" in what is now Ingeniero Allan, Florencio Varela, Argentina. In 1846 the family established a '' pulpería'' further south, in the surroundings of Chascomús, not far from the lake of the same name. In this natural environment, Hudson spent his youth studying the local flora and fauna and observing both natural and human dramas on what was then a lawless frontier, while publishing his ornithological work in ''Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society'' initially in an English mingled with Spanish idioms. He had a special love for Patagonia. Hudson emigrated to England in 1874, taking up residence at St Luke's ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1880 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1880. Events *April – Publication in France of ''Les Soirées de Médan'', a collection of six Naturalist short stories set during the Franco-Prussian War by six authors who frequent Émile Zola's home, including Guy de Maupassant's first, '' Boule de Suif'', which launches his career. *April 20 ( O. S.: April 8) – At the Romanian Academy, Titu Maiorescu announces a reformed Romanian alphabet, adopted by a commission also comprising George Bariț and Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu. The rationalized spelling reflects ideas endorsed by Maiorescu since the 1860s, replacing the deep orthography favored by "Latinists". *May – In the United States, the publishing business of Henry Oscar Houghton and George H. Mifflin is reconstructed as Houghton, Mifflin and Company. * June 6 – Statue of Alexander Pushkin (d. 1837), sculpted by Alexander Opekushin, is unveiled in Strastnaya Square, Moscow. *Octobe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Juan Moreira
Juan Moreira (? - April 1874) is a well-known figure in the history of Argentina. An outlaw, gaucho and folk-hero, he is considered one of the most renowned Argentinian rural bandits. Early life Moreira was born in the administrative area of La Matanza, in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The first thirty years of his life were relatively uneventful, working in rural areas until he could buy his own ranch, some cattle, and land for farming. One characteristic that set him apart from others was that he rarely drank. Moreira devoted his free time to perfecting his skill on the guitar, which attracted the attention of Vicenta, the daughter of a local rancher. She fell in love with Moreira and eventually married him, with the full consent of her father. Shortly after Moreira married Vicenta, his troubles began. The Deputy Mayor of the area, known as Don Francisco, had also fallen in love with La Vicenta, so as a form of vengeance he began charging Moreira fines for everyth ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Eduardo Gutiérrez
Eduardo Gutiérrez (15 July 1851 – 2 August 1889) was an Argentine writer. His works of gauchoesque nature acquired great popularity, specially ''Juan Moreira Juan Moreira (? - April 1874) is a well-known figure in the history of Argentina. An outlaw, gaucho and folk-hero, he is considered one of the most renowned Argentinian rural bandits. Early life Moreira was born in the administrative area of La ...'', a novel successfully adapted to the stage in 1884 that popularized the gaucho as a protagonist in Argentine theatre. References External link Argentine male writers 1851 births 1889 deaths Place of birth missing Burials at La Recoleta Cemetery {{Argentina-writer-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Delfina Benigna Da Cunha
Delfina Benigna da Cunha (1791–1857) was a Brazilian poet. Her works reflected the increasing socio-political participation of Brazilian women through literary and journalistic production. da Cunha explored gender as well as imperial and national identities. She is also cited as a leading figure in the development of Gaucho literature. da Cunha, a blind poet, was a subject of Stella Leonardos' work ''Romanceiro de Anita e Garibaldi e Romaceiro de Delfina''. Biography da Cunha was born on June 17, 1791, in São José do Norte, a municipality in Rio Grande do Sul. Her parents were Maria de Paula e Cunha and Joaquim Francisco da Cunha Sa e Meneses, who was a monarchist military official. da Cunha lost her vision after she contracted smallpox when she was 20 months old. She would later receive a pension due to her father's service to the crown. There were few records detailing her early life but some of da Cunha's works indicated that she obtained some form of formal education b ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Leopoldo Lugones
Leopoldo Antonio Lugones Argüello (13 June 1874 – 18 February 1938) was an Argentine poet, essayist, novelist, playwright, historian, professor, translator, biographer, philologist, theologian, diplomat, politician and journalist. His poetic writings are often considered to be the founding works of Spanish-language modern poetry (not, however, modernismo). His short stories made him a crucial precursor and also a pioneer of both the fantastic and science fiction literature in Argentina. Early life Born in Villa de María del Río Seco, a city in Córdoba Province, in Argentina's Catholic heartland, Lugones belonged to a family of landed gentry. He was the firstborn son of Santiago M. Lugones and Custodia Argüello. His father, son of Pedro Nolasco Lugones, was returning from the city of Buenos Aires to Santiago del Estero when he met Custodia Argüello while stopping in Villa de María, a locality that was at that time disputed territory between the provinces of Santiago de ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rafael Obligado
Rafael Obligado (27 January 1851 – 8 March 1920) was an Argentine poet and playwright. Obligado was the son of María Jacinta Ortiz Urién and Luis Obligado y Saavedra. During the 1880s, he became known as ''el poeta del Paraná'' (the poet of Paraná river). He wrote poetry with gaucho themes, but using cultured and educated language. He was heavily influenced by contemporary French poetry, and became well known in Argentina for his poem ''Santos Vega'', an ode to a gaucho-troubadour, a type of composer and performer known in Argentina under the name of ''payador''. He married Isabel Gómez Langenheim, and in 1896 commissioned a rural residence with a design based on her preference for the works of Sir Walter Scott; the Rafael Obligado Castle, near Ramallo, Buenos Aires, is one of the premier estancias in the Pampas region. Obligado was one of the founders of the Department of Philosophy and Literature of the University of Buenos Aires, where he served as the Assistant Dean o ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1879 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * October 10 – American poet Ethel Lynn Beers' collected works ''"All Quiet Along The Potomac" and Other Poems'' (including her most well-known work " All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight") are published; the following day she dies aged 52 at Orange, New Jersey. * Critic and poet Theodore Watts-Dunton takes the alcoholic poet Algernon Charles Swinburne into his permanent care at Watts' Putney home. Works published in English United Kingdom * Edwin Arnold, ''The Light of Asia; or, The Great Renunciation'' (see also ''The Light of the World'' 1891) * Louisa Sarah Bevington, ''Key-Notes'' * Robert Bridges, ''Poems'' (see also ''Poems'' 1873, 1880) * Robert Browning, ''Dramatic Idyls'', including "Ivàn Ivànovitch" (see also ''dramatic Idyls'' 1880) * Edmund Gosse, ''New Poems'' * Kate Greenaway, '' Under the Window: Pictures & Rhymes for Children ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1872 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * First printed version of the Thai epic ''Khun Chang Khun Phaen''. Works published in English United Kingdom * Alfred Austin, ''Interludes''Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * Robert Browning, ''Fifine at the Fair'' * C. S. Calverley, published anonymously, ''Fly Leaves'' * Samuel Ferguson, ''Congal'' * W. S. Gilbert, ''More "Bab" Balads'' (see also ''"Bab" Ballads'' 1869) * Edward Lear, ''More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc.'' * Winwood Reade, ''The Martyrdom of Man'' * Christina Rossetti, ''Sing-Song'', book of nursery rhymes * Alfred Lord Tennyson, ''Gareth and Lynette'' (see also ''Idylls of the King'' 1859, ''The Holy Grail'' 1869, ''Idylls of the King'' 1870, 1889, "The Last Tournament" 1871, "Balin and Balan" in ''Tiresias'' 1885), United States * Thomas ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |