Joaquín Acadio Pagaza y Ordóñez was a Mexican ecclesiastic, writer and translator, born 6 January, 1839 in
Valle de Bravo
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, died 15 July 1918 in
Xalapa
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.
Life and work
Pagaza was ordained in 1864 and served in various capacities until he was made bishop of
Veracruz
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in 1895, an appointment he held until his death in 1918. He had written poetry since the start of his studies and was nominated to the
Mexican Academy of Letters in 1882. He was noted for his versions of
Virgil
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and
Horace
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, as well as for his three collections of original poems: ''Murmurios de la selva'' (Jungle rustling, 1887); ''María'' (fragments of a descriptive poem of the torrid zone, 1890); ''Algunas trovas últimas'' (Last verses, 1893). His sonnets especially celebrate the distinctive tropical landscape of Veracruz.
On the centenary of Pagaza's birth, a bronze plaque was placed on his birthplace honouring him as cleric, poet and translator and a museum dedicated to him was opened in 1964.
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References
See also
2 poems
translated by Alice Stone Blackwell from a 1920 anthology
* 2 poems translated by Samuel Beckett
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in ''Anthology of Mexican Poetry'', Indiana University Press (1958), pp. 104-5
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1839 births
1918 deaths
Mexican Roman Catholic bishops
19th-century Mexican poets
Mexican translators
People from the State of Mexico
Writers from the State of Mexico