Enrique Banchs

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Enrique Banchs (1888 - 1968) was an Argentine poet. He published all his work in the space of four years at the beginning of the 20th century, then lay dormant until his death. In his four works, Las barcas ("The Boats") (1907), El libro de los elogios ("The Book of Elegies") (1908), El cascabel del halcón ("The Bell of the Hawk") (1909) and La urna ("The Urn") (1911), Banchs cultivated an ephemeral, classicistic style drawing inspiration from the Siglo de Oro. His final work was composed in sonnets, a form which had already been almost completely abandoned by that time. Banchs published nothing during the final fifty years of his life, but he remained a part of the Argentine literary scene, and a member of the Argentine Academy of Letters.