Emilio oribe

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Emilio Nicolás Oribe (Melo, April 13, 1893 - Montevideo, May 24, 1975) was a Uruguayan poet, essayist, philosopher, and physician.

Biography

The son of Nicolás Oribe and Virginia Coronel, he was born in Melo on April 13, 1893. Very young in 1909 and under the pseudonym Ismael Velarde he published his first articles in the newspaper La Razón of Montevideo. In 1912 he published his first book of poetry & # 34; Hallucinations of Beauty & # 34;

He was a professor and dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences of the University of the Republic and a member of the Uruguayan Academy of Letters.

He cultivated an avant-garde poetry, directed towards ultraism. In philosophy he was characterized by writing through aphorisms and clearly idealistic positions. He is considered a member of the Centennial Generation (a term referring to the centenary of Uruguayan independence, that is, to the generation of artists who flourished in 1930), along with Líber Falco, Sabat Ercasty and Paco Espínola among others.

Outstanding works

Poems

• Lighting of beauty (1912)
• The nod of the amphora (1915)
• The inner castle (1917)
• The astral hawk (1919)
• The never used sea (1922)
• The hill of the red bird (1925)

Essays

• Poetics and plastic (1930)
• Theory of the "nous" (1934)
• The myth and logos (1945)
• Magna Ars (1960)