Ernesto Noboa y Caamaño

Ernesto Noboa y Caamaño (Known as "Ernesto Noboa")

Symbolist Lyric Poet, Author of 'Romanza de las Horas'

Born 1891-08-02

Guayaquil, Ecuador

Passed Away 1927-12-07 Quito, Ecuador

Lifespan 36 years old

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"There is a deep sorrow in the evening that whispers of things that can never return."

Archival Overview

Aristocratic symbolist poet of the 'Generación Decapitada' whose delicate 1922 collection 'Romanza de las horas' and haunting sonnet 'Emoción vesperal' epitomized the elegant, fatalistic twilight of Andean Modernism.

Biographical Record

Ernesto Noboa y Caamaño was born on August 2, 1891, into an illustrious political family in Guayaquil. Suffering from lifelong nervous frailty and existential despondency, Noboa sought solace in European literature, traveling across Spain and France.

Returning to Quito, he published Romanza de las horas in 1922, containing immortal modern sonnets like 'Emoción vesperal'. Living a reclusive life consumed by absinthe and neurosis, he died in 1927 at thirty-six, completing the tragic roster of Ecuador's four Decapitated Poets who perished young.

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San Diego Cemetery (Cementerio de San Diego)
Quito, Ecuador

                         GPS: -0.2270, -78.5230                    

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