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Encyclopedia > The poets of Elan

A group of Ecuadorian poets born between 1905 and 1920 representing the neosymbolism or lyrical vanguard movement. These poets gravitate towards an inner, cerebral lyric, but are also moved by the decisive influence of the social movements growing in the country and the world, specially to the many questions that arise after World War I and the years that followed. Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... Vanguard can mean: A vanguard is the forward division in an army. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ...


The poets of ELAN are Augusto Sacoto Arias ( 1907), Atanasio Viteri (1908 ), Ignacio Lasso (1911), José A. Llerena (1912), Jorge I. Guerrero (1913), Humberto Vacas Gómez (1913) , Alejandro Carrión (1915) , Joaquín Gallegos Lara (1911-1947), Nela Martínez (1911), Enrique Gil Gilbert (1913 ), Pedro Jorge Vera ( 1915 ), Adalberto Ortiz (1914), Nelson Estupiñán Bass (1915) . Hugo Larrea Andrade (1907) , Rodrigo Pachano Lalama 1910), Carlos Suárez Veintimilla (1911), Jorge Isaac Robayo (1911-1960), Carlos Bazante (1914). Ignacio Lasso (1911 - 1943) was an Ecuadorian poet born in Quito. ... Alejandro Carrión Alejandro Carrión Aguirre (1915 - 1992) was born in Loja, Ecuador. ... An Ecuadorian writer and Communist politician, born in the city of Guayaquil (1914 - 1999). ... Adalberto Ortiz (1914-2003) Novelist, poet and diplomat born in Esmeraldas, a province of Ecuador. ...


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§11. Richard Hovey. X. Later Poets. Vol. 17. Later National Literature, Part II. The Cambridge History of English ... (810 words)
It was a tremendous theme, worthy of a poet of an ampler intellectual endowment than Hovey’s.
It is, at all events, a remarkable feat in rhythm-building, astonishing in the easy mastery with which the poet passes from one movement to another and in the variety of musical effects.
Another Columbia University poet of latter-day New York was the accomplished Frank Dempster Sherman (1860-1916), professor of graphics, an ardent philatelist and collector of book-plates, author of Madrigals and Catches (1887), Lyrics for a Lute (1890), Little Folk Lyrics (1892), and Lyrics of Joy (1904).
Top Literature - Poetry (7880 words)
Later poets and aestheticians often distinguished poetry from, and defined it in opposition to, prose, which was generally understood as writing with a proclivity to logical explication and a linear narrative structure.
The underlying concept of the poet as creator is not uncommon, and some modernist poets essentially do not distinguish between the creation of a poem with words, and creative acts in other media such as carpentry.
Numerous modernist poets have written in non-traditional forms or in what traditionally would have been considered prose, although their writing was generally infused with poetic diction and often with rhythm and tone established by non-metrical means.
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