Guillermo Valencia

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | 549 words | Copyright

Guillermo Valencia , 1873–1943, Colombian poet, one of the leaders of modernismo . He came from an aristocratic family, received solid classical training, and became active politically as an orator. Valencia was a disciple of José Asunción Silva . His austere and subtle verses display his considerable culture and extreme sensibility. The only collections of his work published in his lifetime are Ritos [rites] (1898) and Catay (1928). Valencia was constantly preoccupied with the fate of the poet in an indifferent world.

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