A group of Ecuador

Ecuador

Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...

ian poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

s born between 1905 and 1920 representing the neosymbolism

Neosymbolism

Neosymbolism is a movement current in the visual arts genre. Active in the movement are artists in the USA, in Denmark, and in the Czech Republic.- History :...

 or lyrical vanguard movement. These poets gravitate towards an inner, cerebral lyric, but are also moved by the decisive influence of the social movements growing in the country and the world, specially to the many questions that arise after World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 and the years that followed.

The poets of ELAN are Augusto Sacoto Arias (1907), Atanasio Viteri (1908), Ignacio Lasso

Ignacio Lasso

Ignacio Lasso was an Ecuadorian poet born in Quito. He was the mentor and founder of the magazine of the poets of Elan, a group integrated by Ecuadorian poets born between 1905 and 1920. He collaborated with several magazines of his time...

 (1911), José A. Llerena (1912), Jorge I. Guerrero (1913), Humberto Vacas Gómez (1913), Alejandro Carrión

Alejandro Carrión

Alejandro Carrión Aguirre was born in Loja, Ecuador. A poet, novelist and enthusiastic journalist, he published two important novels, La manzana dañada and La espina, many books of short stories, and numerous poetry books...

 (1915), Joaquín Gallegos Lara

Joaquín Gallegos Lara

Joaquín Gallegos Lara was an Ecuadorian novelist and essayist.Lara was born in Guayaquil in 1911 to a poor family, and was self-taught. Many of his stories were collected in"Las Cruces Sobre el Agua," a novel published in 1946...

 (1911–1947), Nela Martínez (1911), Enrique Gil Gilbert

Enrique Gil Gilbert

Enrique Gil Gilbert , born in the coastal city of Guayaquil, was an Ecuadorian novelist.Gil Gilbert was the youngest of the so-called "Grupo de Guayaquil" . The "Grupo de Guayaquil" was one of the most recognized literary groups in Ecuador in 1930-1940...

 (1913 ), Pedro Jorge Vera

Pedro Jorge Vera

Pedro Jorge Vera was an Ecuadorian writer and Communist Party of Ecuador politician. He contributed to several newspapers and magazines of controversial character "La Calle", with the writer Alejandro Carrión, as well as "La Mañana". He remained throughout his life a close friend of Cuban...

 (1915), Adalberto Ortiz

Adalberto Ortiz

Adalberto Ortiz was a novelist, poet and diplomat born in Esmeraldas, a province of Ecuador.Among his most important literary works we find his novel Juyungo, his poetry collection Earth, Sound and Drum, and the short story collection called Entundada; His most defining feature as a writer was the...

 (1914), Nelson Estupiñán Bass (1915). Hugo Larrea Andrade (1907), Rodrigo Pachano Lalama 1910), Carlos Suárez Veintimilla (1911), Jorge Isaac Robayo (1911–1960), Carlos Bazante (1914).

See also

• List of Spanish language poets