Enrique Banchs
(Buenos Aires, 1888-1968) Argentine poet considered one of the most prominent representatives of pure lyricism, even when chronologically linked to modernism, although he defined himself as a poet traditionalist, tributary of romantic heritage.Banchs, who always lived in his hometown, was a member of the group from the early days of the magazine We and directed the educational publication The Common Education Monitor.
His poetry draws from two different origins: his own life experience and the reminiscence of his readings.At the beginning of the 20th century, he released four books of poems, written between the ages of 19 and 23, in which he reflected on the role of the poet and poetry: Las barcas (1907), The Book of Commendations (1908), The Falcon's Bell (1909) and The Urn (1911).
The most celebrated is the last, where he addressed the issue of impossible love from an essentialist perspective.He was compared with Petrarca for the refined form of his sonnets and the exaltation of love.In his favorite metric structure, the sonnet, Banchs collected the proposals of the Italian and Spanish classics and the French symbolists, without neglecting the recovery of forms and themes from Provençal literature and Spanish medieval poetry.His most remembered sonnets are "Shimmering the flank", "The aurora enters the garden", "Hospitable and faithful in its reflection".
While the fame of the poet increased over the years, he not only resisted reissuing his works but kept a silence only interrupted by the publication of some texts in verse and prose.In this one, with a very careful style, verbal control and fine irony, his disenchantment with the world is reflected.He was president of the Argentine Society of Writers, whose Award of Honor he obtained, like Severo Vaccardo.He performed at the Academia Argentina de Letras, an institution that published his Obra poética in 1973.
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