Tabaré
poetry by Zorrilla de San Martín
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discussed in biography
- In Juan Zorrilla de San Martín
…a long historical verse epic, Tabaré (1886; final edition after several revisions, 1926), a poem in six cantos, based upon a legend of the love between a Spanish girl and an Indian boy.
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Latin American literature
- In Latin American literature: Romanticism
…de San Martín, Tabaré (1886; Tabaré: An Indian Legend of Uruguay), which depicted the fate of the Charrúa Indians, defeated by the Spanish invaders. The high point of this trend of portraying native types was reached in Argentina by José Hernández in the gaucho epic Martín Fierro (1872–79; Martín Fierro:…
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