Francisco Gavidia was a Salvadoran

El Salvador

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 writer, educator and journalist

Journalist

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. His poetry

Poetry

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 evolved from romanticism

Romanticism

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 to a reflective direction and conceptual character. He was greatly influenced by French poetry

French poetry

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 of the time and he introduced Rubén Darío

Rubén Darío

Félix Rubén García Sarmiento , known as Rubén Darío, was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement known as modernismo that flourished at the end of the 19th century...

to these currents.

The trajectory of his poetry is similar to the one of his theater, as he demonstrates in his dramas Jupiter (1885), Ursino (1889), Count of San Salvador or the God of the things (1901), Lucia Lasso or the Pirates (1914) and the Ivory Tower (1920), and the dramatic poem Princess Catalá (1944).