Gaucho literature

Gauchoesque works continue to be read and studied as a significant part of Argentine literary history.

[1] The movement arose as writers in those countries developed their understanding of their national identities.

Three great poets in this trend were, José Hernández, Estanislao del Campo and Hilario Ascasubi.

[1] The influence of folk music and a countrified language has always, to some extent, been felt in popular literature, as, for example, in the folk-flavoured poetry of the Uruguayan gauchoesque poet Bartolomé Hidalgo (1788–1822).

The influx on the soul which the gaucho exercises can be felt on the work of much later writers who loved the country scene of Argentina and Uruguay, such as Ricardo Güiraldes, Benito Lynch and Enrique Amorim.