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From: Reforma (México D.F., México)
Date: 20040725
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Byline: Salvador Novo

Centenario: Salvador Novo

La aspiración de la poesía norteamericana a la autenticidad a la independencia y a la expresión de la vida del nuevo mundo con su propio lenguaje, aspiración que madura y culmina en Walt Whitman, encuentra sus remotos orígenes en la propia Revolución Americana. Esgrimida como un arma, la poesía sirvió entonces para excitar a la lucha y para celebrar en versos a sus héroes; y acaso debamos incluir dentro de sus terrenos ciertos cantos de guerra tales como el Yankee Doodle, Nathan Hale, The Epilogue y el poema ...

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