Valencia, Guillermo
Guillermo Valencia (gēyār´mō välān´syä), 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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BORN: 1902, Camaguey, Cuba
DIED: 1989, Havana, Cuba
NATIONALITY: Cuban
GENRE: Poetry, nonfiction
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