Ricardo Jaimes Freyre (May 12, 1868 – April 24, 1933) was a Peruvian-born Bolivian poet.

Background and early years

Born in Tacna, Peru on May 12, 1868, his

Symbolist Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realis ...

-influenced verse, which frequently took advantage of

free verse Free verse is an open form of poetry, which in its modern form arose through the French ''vers libre'' form. It does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech. Definit ...

forms, was important in the development of Latin American modernism. Freyre spent much of his time abroad, especially in Tucumán, Argentina, teaching literature at the Padres Lourdistas' Secondary School.

Collaboration with Rubén Darío

He founded, in collaboration with

Rubén Darío Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (January 18, 1867 – February 6, 1916), known as Rubén Darío ( , ), was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-language literary movement known as ''modernismo'' (modernism) that flourished at the end of ...

the "short-lived but influential" review ''Revista de América''.Echevarría, Roberto González & Enrique Pupo-Walker. ''The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature.'' Page 53. Cambridge University Press, 1996. His works were also influenced by Norse mythology.

Death

Freyre died in Banfield, Argentina on April 24, 1933.

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Biography and selection of poems
Bolivian male poets 1868 births 1933 deaths Foreign ministers of Bolivia Bolivian diplomats {{Bolivia-poet-stub