Jose María Egas

Jose María Egas is an Ecuadorian poet born in Manta, 1896-1982. He is considered a symbolist poet. His poetry is said to be very musical and is popular with the common man. Many of his poems were turned into the lyrics of "Pasillos".

Bibliography

• Unción (1923)
• Unción y otros poemas (1941)
• El milagro (1941); Unción
• El milagro y Otros poemas (1954)
• Canto a Guayaquil (1960)
• Poesías completas (Guayaquil, 1982. 2da. Ed)

Consta en las antologías:

• Indice de la poesía ecuatoriana contemporánea (Santiago de Chile, 1937)
• Otros modernistas (Guayaquil, s.f.)
• Poesía viva del Ecuador (Quito, 1990)
• La palabra perdurable (Quito, 1991)
• Poesía modernista ecuatoriana (Quito, 1991).

Read More