Hilario Ascasubi
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Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
poet.
Ascasubi was born in the back of a horse drawn cart, in Bell Ville
Bell Ville
Bell Ville is a city in center-south of the province of Córdoba, Argentina, located 200 km southeast from the capital Córdoba City, on the intersection of National Route 9 and Provincial Route 3 with the Córdoba–Rosario–Buenos Aires railroad....
city, while his mother was on her way to a wedding in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
.
In 1821, he boarded a ship heading to France
France
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. The ship was hijacked and diverted to Lisbon
Lisbon
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. He escaped, went to France, and lived there for two years. In the 1820s, he joined the military and fought Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
. He then fought in the Argentine Civil War
Argentine Civil War
The Argentine Civil Wars were a series of internecine wars that took place in Argentina from 1814 to 1876. These conflicts were separate from the Argentine War of Independence , though they first arose during this period....
, after which he lived in exile
Exile
Exile means to be away from one's home , while either being explicitly refused permission to return and/or being threatened with imprisonment or death upon return...
in Montevideo
Montevideo
Montevideo is the largest city, the capital, and the chief port of Uruguay. The settlement was established in 1726 by Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst a Spanish-Portuguese dispute over the platine region, and as a counter to the Portuguese colony at Colonia del Sacramento...
, Uruguay
Uruguay
Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...
, where he wrote poetry and ran a bakery shop. In 1843, he published El gaucho Jacinto Cielo con doce números, and in 1846 he published Paulino Lucero.
He died in Buenos Aires of an intestinal problem.
Publications
Each year links to its corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:- 18431843 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* R. S. Hawker, Reeds Shaken with the Wind...
: El gaucho Jacinto Cielo con doce números - 18461846 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* William Barnes, Poems, Partly of Rural Life...
: Paulino Lucero - 18511851 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published in English:-United Kingdom:* Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Poems Posthumous and Collected...
: Santos Vega o los mellizos de la FlorSantos VegaSantos Vega was an Argentine gaucho, and invincible payador , who was only defeated by the Devil himself, disguised as the payador Juan sin Ropa .The myth states he is buried near San Clemente del Tuyú.President Bartolomé Mitre was the first to compose a poem based... - 18531853 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Cecil Frances Alexander, Narratyve Hymns for Village Schools...
: Aniceto el Gallo - 18721872 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Alfred Austin, Interludes* Robert Browning, Fifine at the Fair...
: Obras completas ("Complete Works"), three volumes compiled by the author