Xavier Abril de Vivero, (4 November 1905 in

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who devoted time studying the poetry of

César Vallejo César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza (March 16, 1892 – April 15, 1938) was a Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist. Although he published only two books of poetry during his lifetime, he is considered one of the great poetic innovators ...

Bibliography

* Exposition de poèmes et designs, París, 1927 * Various poems (in the magazine ''Amauta'', 1926 - 1930) * Hollywood (Madrid, 1931) * Difícil trabajo, (Madrid, 1935) * Descubrimiento del alba, (Lima, 1937) * La rosa escrita, (Montevideo, 1987 and Lima, 1996) * Declaración de nuestros días, (1988), * Poesía inédita, (Montevideo, 1994). * Poesía soñada, obra poética completa (Lima, UNMSM, 2006)

Essays and anthologies

* Anthology of César Vallejo (Buenos Aires, 1943). * Vallejo: test critical approach (Buenos Aires, 1958). * Two studies: Vallejo and Mallarmé (Bahia Blanca, 1960). * César Vallejo or poetic theory (Madrid, 1963). * Exegesis trílcica (Lima, 1981)

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Some of his poems
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