Enrique Banchs (1888–1968) was an Argentine poet. He published all his work in the space of four years at the beginning of the 20th century. In his four works, ''Las barcas'' (1907), ''El libro de los elogios'' (1908), ''El cascabel del halcón'' (1909) and ''La urna'' (1911). Banchs cultivated an ephemeral, classicistic style drawing inspiration from the

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. His final work was composed in sonnets, a form which had already been almost completely abandoned by that time. Banchs published nothing during the final fifty years of his life, but he remained a part of the Argentine literary scene, and a member of the

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. He was a friend of Carlos Alberto Leumann.

Works

Poetry

*1907: ''Las barcas'' *1908: ''El libro de los elogios'' *1909: ''El cascabel del halcón'' *1911: ''La urna''

Prose

*1941: ''Discurso de recepción en la Academia Argentina de Letras'' *1943: ''Averiguaciones sobre la autoridad en el idioma'' 1888 births 1968 deaths Argentine male poets Writers from Buenos Aires 20th-century Argentine poets 20th-century Argentine male writers {{Argentina-poet-stub