Octavio G. Barreda (30 November 1897 – 2 January 1964) was a Mexican poet, critic, essayist, translator, and a literary promoter.
Poet of secret desolation and author of some precious Sonetos a la Virgen (Sonnets to the Virgin) (1937) with hermetic background, sharp prose writer and critic.
Eliot, D.H. Lawrence and Saint-John Perse, and was known for the generous impulse given to Mexican new literary values in the magazines he founded: Letras de México (1937-1947) and El Hijo Pródigo (1943-1946).
[3] The literary critic Emmanuel Carballo, in his memoirs, points out that from 1937 to 1945, Barreda "was the president of the Mexican republic of letters".
[2] The poet Alí Chumacero wrote that Barreda "knew how to bring together writers from different trends and inclinations.