Jose María Egas

Jose María Egas is an Ecuadorian poet born in Manta, 1896-1982. He is considered a symbolist poet. His poetry is said to be very musical and is popular with the common man.Fact|date=February 2007 Many of his poems were turned into the lyrics of "Pasillos".

Bibilography

* (1923)
* Unción y otros poemas (1941)
* El milagro (1941); Unción
* El milagro y Otros poemas (1954)
* Canto a Guayaquil (1960)
* Poesías completas (Guayaquil, 1982. 2da. Ed)

Consta en las antologías:

* Indice de la poesía ecuatoriana contemporánea (Santiago de Chile, 1937)
* Otros modernistas (Guayaquil, s.f.)
* Poesía viva del Ecuador (Quito, 1990)
* La palabra perdurable (Quito, 1991)
* Poesía modernista ecuatoriana (Quito, 1991).