Carlos Obligado (21 May 1889, in

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– 3 February 1949, in Buenos Aires) was an Argentinian poet, crític and writer, best known for his patriotic lyrics to the song " Marcha de las Malvinas" (the Argentine name for the

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). He was the son of poet

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(the author of "

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") and Isabel Gómez Langenheim. He pursued studies at the

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and took his doctorate at the

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in 1917.Argentinidad: Biography
/ref> His first book, "Poemas", was published in 1920. He translated several French poets (

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and others). He was a literary critic, lecturer and university professor and served as the director of the Instituto de Literatura Argentina. In 1928 he traveled to Europe, visiting several countries. On his return to Argentina, he was named a dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. He was later named a member of the

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and the

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. In 1932, he produced a comprehensive translation of the poems of

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and

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as well as a critical study of

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. The Spanish government awarded him the

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in 1947. He was manager of the "Bibliotecas Populares" of the Ministry of Education when he died on February 3, 1949.

Works

*''Poemas'' (1920) *''Los Grandes Románticos'' (The Great Romantics, 1923) *''Las Cuevas del Fósil'' (Fossil Caves, 1927) *''Poemas de Edgar Allan Poe'' (1932) *''Temas Poéticos'' (Poetic Themes, 1936) *''Antología de Leopoldo Lugones'' (1942) *''Patria'' (Fatherland, 1943) *''Ausencia'' (Absence, 1945)

References

1889 births 1949 deaths Writers from Buenos Aires Argentine male poets Rectors of the University of Buenos Aires Recipients of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise 20th-century Argentine poets 20th-century Argentine male writers {{Argentina-poet-stub