Olmedo, José Joaquín

Olmedo, José Joaquín

▪ Ecuadorian writer
also  José Joaquín de Olmedo 
born March 20, 1780, Guayaquil, New Granada [now in Ecuador]
died Feb. 19, 1847, Guayaquil, Ecuador

      poet and statesman whose odes commemorating South America's achievement of independence from Spain captured the revolutionary spirit of his time and inspired a generation of Romantic poets and patriots. They have remained monuments to the heroic figures of the liberation movement in South America.

      After receiving his degree in law in 1805 from the University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru, Olmedo was sent to Spain in 1811 to represent Guayaquil in the Cortes de Cádiz, the revolutionary parliament that promulgated the liberal constitution of 1812.

      Olmedo returned to Guayaquil in 1816, continuing to be active in political life while writing poetry. His forceful themes of battle and liberation, inspired by contemporary events and the poetry of Homer, Horace, and Virgil, soon brought him recognition as an outstanding spokesman of the liberation movement. The ode for which he is best remembered, La victoria de Junín: Canto a Bolívar (1825; “The Victory at Junín: Song to Bolívar”), commemorates the decisive battle won there by the forces of the liberator Simón Bolívar against the Spanish armies. Neoclassical in form, yet Romantic in inspiration and imagery, the Canto a Bolívar is considered by many critics the finest example of heroic poetry written in Spanish America.

      When Ecuador became a republic in 1830, Olmedo was elected its first vice president, but he declined this honour, preferring to remain active in local politics. His later poetry foresaw and deplored the trend toward the militarism and civil war that was beginning to undermine the unity of South America after independence had been achieved.

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