La poesía viaja a América: la “Alocución” lírica de Andrés Bello

Abstract

A complete overview of the historical phenomenon of the Independence of Latin American countries cannot disregard the poetic universe. The great Venezuelan humanist and polygraph Andrés Bello published the “silva” “Alocución a la Poesía” in the magazine he founded during his nineteen-year stay in London, the legendary Biblioteca Americana, in its first issue in 1823. This article recovers that publication and analyzes its compositional, formal and historic elements. In it, Bello claims the journey of poetry to the promised land of America, where it will renew its energies, withered in the Old World, and contribute to strengthen the “cultural autonomy”, companion and guide of the “political autonomy” of “Nuestra América”.

Keywords

• andrés bello, poesía, revistas americanas, autonomía cultural, filosofía de la historia