Pedro Geoffroy Rivas (16 September 1908 - 10 November 1979) was an

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poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

, and

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. His poetic work marked a landmark in Salvadoran poetic development. A rebellious, individualistic poet, Rivas incorporated in his poetry the freedom to express himself openly without fear of ordinariness or

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turns. Rivas and Oswaldo Escobar Velado are known as the founders of the modern protest poetry of El Salvador. Rivas was a member of

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and Salvadoran Communist Party in the 1930s. His work influenced

Pablo Neruda Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (; ), was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Nerud ...

Education

Rivas studied Anthropology

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at the

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and obtained his Master's degree from the university.

Bibliography

Poetry

* ''Canciones en el viento'' (1933) * ''Rumbo'' (1935) * ''Para cantar mañana'' (1935) * ''Solo Amor'' (1963) * ''Yulcuicat'' (1965) * ''Cuadernos del Exilio'' * ''Los nietos del jaguar'' (1977) * ''Vida, pasión y muerte del antihombre'' (1978)

Anthropology and Linguistics

* ''Toponimia náhuat de Cuscatlán'' (1961, corregida y aumentada 1973) * ''El español que hablamos en El Salvador'' (1969 y 1975) * ''El nawat de Cuscatlán - Apuntes para una gramática Tentativa'' (1969) * ''Mi Alberto Masferrer'' (1953) * ''La lengua salvadoreña'' (1978)

References

1908 births 1979 deaths Salvadoran poets Salvadoran male writers Male poets Linguists from El Salvador 20th-century poets People from Santa Ana, El Salvador Linguists of Uto-Aztecan languages 20th-century male writers 20th-century linguists {{ElSalvador-poet-stub