Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano (

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, January 3, 1899 – Mexico City, April 13, 1949)''Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano'' in Octavio Paz
''Poesía en movimiento: México 1915-1966''
(Spanish), 2006, p. 385 was a modern

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poet, literary critic, editor, and teacher.''Biography of Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano''
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. He taught at the Escuela de Verano, a school of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and served as bookrevisor of the

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(SEP).''Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano''
(Spanish), Biografías y Vidas. He was member of the literary group

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, which was founded in 1918 by

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, and others. The members of the group wrote for magazines and journals. In 1928 he was co-founder of the magazine " Contemporáneos" and was director of it from June 1928 through December 1931. He was also an occasional editor of the literary magazine "Letras de México", published from 1937 to 1947, chief-editor of "El Trovador", and was co-founder of the

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group.

Works

* ''Avidez'', 1921 * ''El trompo de los siete colores'', 1925 * ''Antología de cuentos mexicanos'' (prose) * ''Red'', 1928 * ''Literatura de la Revolución y literatura revolucionaria'' (essay), 1930 * ''Pantomima'' (theatrical piece), 1930 * ''Primer sueño'', 1931 * ''El Sombrerón'', (theatrical piece), 1931 * ''Sueños, 1933 * ''La poesía indígena de México'', 1935 * ''Muerte del cielo azul'', 1936 * ''Martes de carnaval'' * ''Figura, amor y muerte de Amado Nervo'' (biographical work), 1943 * ''

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'', 1946 * ''La cabeza de Salomé'' * ''Sombra y luz de

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'' (biographical work), 1946 * ''Literatura indígena y colonial mexicana'' (essay), 1946 * ''Conversación epistolar a propósito del libro Sueños'', 1946 Compiled and posthumously edited: * ''Sueño y poesía'', by Wilberto Cantón, 1952 * ''Obras en Prosa'', by María de Lourdes Franco Bagnouls, 1988

References

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