Ramón López Velarde
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Ramón López Velarde was a Mexican poet. His work was a reaction against French-influenced modernismo which, as an expression of a purely Mexican subject matter and emotional experience, is unique. He
Ramón López Velarde in 1918
Los Contemporáneos
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Los Contemporáneos can refer to a Mexican modernist group, active in the late 1920s and early 1930s, as well as to the literary magazine which served as the group's mouthpiece and artistic vehicle fro
Ramón López Velarde
…expression of post-revolutionary Mexican culture. This official appropriation did not preclude others from championing his work. The poets known as the Contemporáneos saw Velarde, together with Tablada, as the beginning of modern Mexican poetry. Xavier Villaurrutia, in particular, insisted on the centrality of Velarde…
The magazine Contemporáneos was started by Jaime Torres Bodet, Bernardo J. Gastélum, Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano, and Enrique González Rojo.