José María Eguren, the symbolist poet

One of the founders of the Peruvian poetry was Jose Maria Eguren. His poetry belongs to the postmodernism and is characterized by its suggestive, educated, musical and chromatic language. In his poems there appear mythological and infantile beings in an environment of haze. Eguren was an introverted and insular poet in our literature since he is the only poet symbolist of Peru. Many critics think that his poetry influenced several later poets. His more important books of poetry are Simbólicas and La canción de las figuras.