José María Vergara y su Lectura de un poeta barroco

Abstract

José María Vergara (1831-1872) proposed to define the specificity of the national literature of Colombia respect of that of Spain. To establish a “national canon” was actually a political and cultural company of many intellectual Spanish Americans of the 19th century who saw in it an expression of the formation of the Nation. This article proposes to characterize the reading that the above mentioned author did of the works of an of Bogotá poem of the 17th century; one presents first a brief synthesis of the arguments exposed by Vergara about the San Ignacio de Loyola-Poema Heroico (1666) of Hernando Domínguez Camargo (1606-1659), immediately the meaning is exposed with regard to the implications of the reading elaborated by our author and ultimately there are exposed the implications that this reading has for the foundation of a literary national tradition.