Gaucho literature
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Gaucho literature, also known in Spanish as género gauchesco was a literary movement purporting to use the language of the gauchos, comparable to the American cowboy, and reflecting their mentality. A
Martín Fierro, written in 1872 by José Hernández is considered the masterpiece of gaucho literature.
Cover of the first edition of Don Segundo Sombra, by Ricardo Güiraldes (1926).
1937 edition of Santos Vega by Rafael Obligado.
Bartolomé Hidalgo
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Bartolomé José Hidalgo was a Uruguayan writer and poet.
Gaucho literature
…language has always, to some extent, been felt in popular literature, as, for example, in the folk-flavoured poetry of the Uruguayan gauchoesque poet Bartolomé Hidalgo (1788–1822). The influx on the soul which the gaucho exercises can be felt on the work of much later writers who loved the country scene of Argentina…
Monument to Bartolomé Hidalgo in Montevideo.