1. Francisco Antonio Gavidia Guandique was a prominent Salvadoran writer, historian, politician, speaker, translator, educator and journalist.
11 Facts About Francisco Gavidia
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Francisco Gavidia's poetry evolved from romanticism to a reflective direction and conceptual character.
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Francisco Gavidia was greatly influenced by French poetry of the time and he introduced Ruben Dario to adapt the Alexandrian verse to the Castilian metre in addition to entering the story, poetry and essays.
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Francisco Gavidia had a large cultural heritage and was able to find a place in the city of Francisco Gavidia.
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Francisco Gavidia worked in poetry, theater, history, music, essay, pedagogy, philosophy, politics, journalism, literary criticism and translation.
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Francisco Gavidia came to create a new language to be universally understood, which had the name "Salvador Language".
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Francisco Gavidia introduced the story with a literary identity typical of its reality, an amalgam of pre-Columbian Indian themes such as legends and myths, is considered the precursor of Salvadoran theater.
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Subsequently, Francisco Gavidia evolved in the particular modulation of his own poetic voice, until he came to the cultivation of a conceptual reflection that reaches its maximum splendor in the poem entitled "Soteer o Tierra de preseas", a modern epic song that, to a large extent, constitutes his masterpiece and his great literary legacy.
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Indeed, Francisco Gavidia himself was able to evolve from a late romanticism into dramas such as "Jupiter" or "Ursino", to a conceptual epic manifested in the dramatic poem entitled La princesa Citala.
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Francisco Gavidia is known for being the advisor of the poet Ruben Dario, a pupil who shared sorrows and joys with the Salvadoran teacher, and who knew the experiment of Gavidia to adapt the Alexandrian verse to the Castilian metric, which gave rise to the modernist renovation of Spanish American poetry.
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In 1937, Francisco Gavidia was a member of the Committee on Intellectual Cooperation of El Salvador, Dependency of the League of Nations and in 1941 the University of El Salvador granted him the Doctorate Honoris Causa.