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León de Greiff

Born

in Bogotá, Colombia

July 20, 1895

Died

July 10, 1976

Genre

Poetry

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Francisco de Asís León Bogislao de Greiff Haeusler was a Colombian poet known for his stylistic innovations and deliberately eclectic use of obscure lexicon. Best known simply as León de Greiff, he often used different pen names. The most popular were 'Leo le Gris' and 'Gaspar de Nuit'. De Greiff was one of the founders of Los Panidas, a literary and artistic group established in 1915 in the city of Medellín. It was a precursor of the modernismo movement in Colombia.

De Greiff was of Swedish and German ancestry. His first book, Tergiversaciones (1925; “Tergiversations”), while displaying the musicality common to the Latin-American modernist poets, was innovative in its invention of words, use of strange adjectives, and breaking of the flow o ...more

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	Antología Poética 4.47 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leon de Greiff: Antología poética by León de Greiff, Jaime Mejía Duque (Prologue), Gerardo Rivas M. (Editor) 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1990	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tergiversaciones 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1925	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	León de Greiff: Antología poética 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Relatos 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Una antología para todos: 50 poemas (Memoria de ciudad) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Variaciones alredor de nada ; Prosas de Gaspar ; Farrago (Nueva biblioteca colombiana de cultura) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Troco a Minha Vida por Candeeiros Velhos 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Esta rosa fue testigo:
¡todo en tu ser sonreía!
Todo cuanto yo soñé
de ti, lo tuve conmigo...
Esta rosa fue testigo.”
― León de Greiff, Obra poética

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