Emilio Nicolás Oribe (April 13, 1893 – May 24, 1975), was a
Uruguay
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an
poet
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, essayist, philosopher, and doctor.
A professor at the
University of the Republic, Uruguay
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, Oribe was dean of the university's Faculty of Humanities and Sciences and a member of the
Uruguayan Academy of Letters.
As a poet, he developed an
avant-garde
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style influenced by
Ultraism
The Ultraist movement () was a literary movement born in Spain in 1918, with the declared intention of opposing Modernismo, which had dominated Spanish poetry since the end of the 19th century.
The movement was launched in the tertulias of Ma ...
.

As a philosopher, he was a strong
idealist
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, and often expressed himself using
aphorism
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s.
Notable works
Poetry
*''Alucinaciones de belleza'' (1912)
*''El nardo del ánfora'' (1915)
*''El castillo interior'' (1917)
*''El halconero astral'' (1919)
*''El nunca usado mar'' (1922)
*''La colina del pájaro rojo'' (1925)
Essays
*''Poética y plástica'' (1930)
*''Teoría del «nous»'' (1934)
*''El mito y el logos'' (1945)
*''Ars magna'' (1960)
External links
Poetry and poetics in Emilio Oribe(Spanish)
(Spanish)
1893 births
1975 deaths
People from Melo, Uruguay
Uruguayan people of Basque descent
20th-century Uruguayan physicians
20th-century Uruguayan poets
Uruguayan male poets
Uruguayan essayists
Members of the Uruguayan Academy of Language
Male essayists
20th-century essayists
20th-century Uruguayan male writers
20th-century Uruguayan philosophers
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