Ernesto Fernández Arrondo

Ernesto Fernández Arrondo (1897-1956)

Born in Güines on January 7, 1897. Distinguished literary man, poet and journalist who knew how to overcome his physical disabilities with his great journalistic and poetic vocations.

He was a poet of classical essences, imprinting modern airs to his lyric. Maybe he was the modern era Cuban poet that better idealized the theme of love and who gave to it, its most philosophical significance.

His name appears, by his own right, in a special place in the Cuban Parnassus. He sang to his country and his heroes and also sang to Love in all of its facets.

As a journalist he knew how to renew day by day the interest of his readers, earned by a fluid and accurate prose, as required in daily journalism, earning to be bestowed upon him the responsibility of editing the literary supplement of Diario de la Marina (Daily of the Marine).

Very young still he published his first book Bronces de Libertad (Bronzes of Liberty) with a patriotic theme, followed by Inquietud (Disquiet) in which the loving and sweet poet appears and Tránsito (Transit) that deserved great accolades from the public and the critics, endorsed by his successive work.

Ernesto Fernández Arrondo was a traditional poet, a man full of light with amnesia of anything gray, a man of deep religious faith, whose spirit would soar above human miseries. It was an intellectual luxury that the Villa of Güines was allowed to have, lulled to sleep in the beautiful tropical evenings by the rumbling waters of the Mayabeque and the lyric accents of him, his poet, who kept it always in his heart. He died in his native Villa on June 26, 1956.

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