- Vicente Acosta
Vicente Acosta (July 24 1867 in
Apopa – July 24 1908 inTegucigalpa ,Honduras ) was a Salvadoranpoet .Acosta published various diaries and papers and the notable were: "Diario del Salvador", "La juventud salvadoreña", "La república de Centro América", and "El Fígaro". He was active in part with the newspaper "La Unión" , in which he signed under the
pseudonym "Flirt". At the time of the coup d'etat of the Antonio brothers andCarlos Ezeta in 1890, Acosta was forced to flee from the country and didn't return until it ended in 1894.In 1904, he was founding director of the newspaper "La Quincena" , an important cultural and scientific journal of the time. He participated people such as
Francisco Gavidia , Santiago I. Barberena and first brother of the writer, Arthur Ambrogi. According to David Escobar Galindo, Acosta was "one with romantic impulse, but soon found it better to write inmodernism . He was modernist in two slopes: cosmic-metaphysics and vernacular".Francisco Gavidia mentioned Acosta describing him as "a sweet poet, of great descriptive dowries".He died in 1908 in
Tegucigalpa and collections of his poems were published after his death. His anthology was released in 1924.Poetry
A poetry extract from "El Platanar" (1924):"EL PLATANAR
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"Impasible y compacto regimiento,
"tendido en las cañadas laderas,
"luce el bosque triunfal de sus banderas,
"que en sus manos alegre agita el viento.
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"Convidando al amable esparcimiento
"están las verdes matas altaneras,
"que se cargan de frutas tempraneras,
"del encendido trópico al aliento.
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"Un sol canicular deja teñido
"el verde platanar con tintas rojas
"en el lienzo del aire estremecido.
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"Mientras, buscando alivio a sus congojas,
"el rudo caporal duerme rendido
"al plácido susurro de las hojas.
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"De “Poesías Selectas", San Salvador, 1924.elected works
*"La Lira Joven", poetry,
San Salvador , 1890.
*"Poesías" (publication), San Salvador, 1899.
*"Poesías Selectas" (poetry anthology), San Salvador, 1924.References
*Cañas Dinarte, Carlos, (2000), Diccionario escolar de autores salvadoreños, San Salvador: Dirección de publicaciones e impresos]
*Escobar Galindo, David, (1982), Indice Antológico de la Poesía Salvadoreña, San Salvador: UCA Editores
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