María Eugenia Vaz Ferreira
Teacher, Author
1875 – 1924
Who was María Eugenia Vaz Ferreira?
Maria Eugenia Vaz Ferreira was an Uruguayan teacher and poet. She was the younger sister of philosopher Carlos Vaz Ferreira and a contemporary of Delmira Agustini and Julio Herrera y Reissig. She was born and lived in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay.
She held a Chair in Literature at the Women's University. She suffered from mental illness and lost her reason some years before her death in 1924.
Her first volume of is entitled La isla de los canticos and consists of forty selected poems which he published shortly after her death. A second volume, entitled La otra isla de los canticos, with a prologue by Emilio Oribe and containing a number of poems taken from her unpublished manuscripts, appeared in 1959 shortly after her brother's death. The modern Poesías Completas contains 112 poems.
Vaz Ferreira is regarded as a metaphysical poet who wrote emotive poems that speak of passion, death, hope, and the mysteries of love and existence.
She was also a musician, and the Lauro Ayestarán collection contains one of her manuscript scores with verses and music.
Contrasting myths have been built around her life.
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- Born
- 1875
Uruguay - Also known as
- Maria Eugenia Vaz Ferreira
- Siblings
- Nationality
- Uruguay
- Profession
- Lived in
- Montevideo
- Died
- 1924
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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