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José Santos Chocano Gastañodi (Lima, Perú born May 14, 1875 – Santiago, d. Chile December 13, 1934) was a Peruvian poet who is also known as "The Singer of Americas", because the first line of one of his most celebrated poems: "I am the singer of the America, Autochthonous and Savage"" (" Yo soy el Cantor de América, autóctono y salvaje", from the poem "Blasón" in Alma América). In the early 20th century his fame stretched through the continent and even to Madrid and Paris. One of his best-known collections is the 1906 Alma América, which opened with a dedicatory poem addressed to Alfonso XIII of Spain that cast the collection as the rediscovery of Latin America through verse; elsewhere in the collection.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Santos_Chocano
(Az oldal szerkesztője: P. T.)
