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Delmira Agustini

Early 20th-century Uruguayan poet

Delmira Agustini

Born(1886-10-24)October 24, 1886
Montevideo, Uruguay
DiedJuly 6, 1914(1914-07-06) (aged 27)
Montevideo, Uruguay
Occupation
PeriodModernist
Literary movementPost Modernist
SpouseEnrique Job Reyes

Delmira Agustini (October 24, 1886 – July 6, 1914) was a Uruguayan poet of the early 20th century.[1]

Biography

Born in Montevideo, Uruguay,[2] she began writing when she was ten and had her first book of poems published when she was still a teenager.[3]

She wrote for the magazine La Alborada (The Dawn).

Delmira agustini poems

She formed part of the Generation of 1900, along with Julio Herrera y Reissig, Leopoldo Lugones and Horacio Quiroga.

Rubén Darío, a Nicaraguan poet, was an important influence for her. She looked up to him as a teacher. Darío compared Agustini to Teresa of Ávila, stating that Agustini was the only woman writer since the saint to expres