Adolfo Berro

Adolfo Berro was born on 11 August 1819 in Montevideo. In the late thirties, he frequented the circle of Argentine writers exiled in the city and that of the young Uruguayan men of letters, and ranks among the country's first Romantic poets. His verse gives a voice to the humble: the slave, the foundling, the beggar, the prostitute. He died on 29 September 1841, aged twenty-two; the collection of his poems appeared the following year, preceded by an introduction by Andrés Lamas and by tributes in verse.

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• PoetryYandubayú y LiropeyaAdolfo Berro · 1842not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain