I lived from 1875-1910. I was from Uruguay, and am in the Americas category.
Uruguayan poet Julio Herrera y Reissig belonged to a family prominent in public affairs but withdrew along with his bohemian followers to an attic known as the Tower of the Panoramas. He became the Uruguayan leader of modernismo. The obscurity and preciosity of his verses and their fantastic, extravagant imagery show the influence of Luis de Góngora and of the French symbolists. His Obras completas (1911–13) was published posthumously.
Popular poetry
- Con la pompa de brahmánicas unciones,
abrióse el lecho de sus primaveras,24 lines - Alisia y Cloris abren de par en par la puerta
y torpes, con el dorso de la mano haragana,36 lines - En un beato silencio el recinto vegeta.
Las vírgenes de cera duermen en su decoro35 lines
