Emilio Oribe
(Melo, 1893-1975) Uruguayan poet and philosopher.In addition to his philosophical essays, he developed a lyrical work that starts from the postulates of modernism and drifts towards a more classical line.He was professor of aesthetics at the University of Montevideo.
His philosophical thought focuses on the conditions and possibilities of this metaphysical meditation, in the incessant inquiry about the being of poetry, which postulates a wealth of eidetic insights on the great eternal themes.The earth and the flow towards death attract and repel him at the same time.Heir to the culturalism of J.E.Rodó, he enriched it with a certain teaching style and rigor and with a greater hierarchy and universality.
Oribe represents the movement of going "towards the sources", going back beyond the philosophers and vulgarizers of the 19th century in search of the authors who founded classical thought in metaphysics, logic, morality and aesthetics.Figures such as Goethe and Leonardo da Vinci exercised an attraction for Oribe based on an ideal of peace, internal control, intelligence, and immunity from historical contingencies.
His essay books Poetics and Plastic (1930), Theory of Nous (1934), The Living Thought of Rodó (1945), The myth and logos (1945), Transcendence and Platonism in poetry (1948), The aesthetic intuition of time ( 1951), Dynamics of the verb (1953) and Three aesthetic ideals (1958) mark the firmness and exceptional persistence of a thought centered on precise fundamental lines.One of his most critically recognized books, characteristic of a stage prior to his synthesis between reflection and poetry, is The Red Bird Hill (1925).
His poetry, closely linked to his prose in language, subject matter and procedure, is clearly conceptual.Some of his most prominent titles in this genre are Hallucinations of beauty (1912), The inner castle (1917), The never used sea ( 1922) and The sphere of singing (1942).
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