Gonzalez Martinez, Enrique

González Martinez, Enrique 

Born Apr. 13, 1871. in Guadalajara; died Feb. 19, 1952, in Mexico City. Mexican poet.

González Martínez was a modernist, but his sonnet “Let’s Twist the Neck of the Swan” (in the collection The Secret Paths. 1911) became the manifesto of the struggle of Spanish-American poets against modernism. His verses and poems (the collections The Death of the Swan, 1915; The Wind’s Word. 1921; and Hidden Signs, 1925) are distinguished by profound lyricism. The collections Unrealized Poems (1932), Flaming Stream (1938). and Under the Sign of Death (1942) are devoted to themes of love and death. In the last years of his life, González Martinez became an active fighter for peace. He published the poem Babylon in 1949.

WORKS

Poesía (1898–1938). vols. 1–3. Mexico City. 1939–40.
Poesías completas. Mexico City. 1944.
In Russian translation:
“Lirika.” Introduction by O. Savich. Inostrannaia literatura, 1964. no. 3.

REFERENCES

Obregón Morales. R. “Chelovek vykhodit na pervyi plan.” Inostrannaia literatura. 1970. no. 6.
Leiva. R. Imagen de la poesía mexicana contemporanea. Mexico City, 1959. Pages 23–32.

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