THE FORMATIVE STAGE (1940-1951): AESTHETIC DEBATES IN THE EARLY POETRY OF HECTOR ROJAS HERAZO

The poetic of Rojas Herazo is part of a historical, political, and cultural landscape defined by the emergence and difficult consolidation of Colombian society's modernizing processes, as well as the crisis and dissolution of the conservative tradition. It is a poetic trajectory whose formative stage covers the years 1940 and 1951 before the publication of Herzo's poetry books. After tracking his first poems published in the regional and capital press, in addition to their critical assessment, we will review the conditions of emergence and reception of the author's poetry, framed in the "piedracielistas" and "americanistas" debate in the 1940'.