Jorge González Bastías

Jorge González Bastías (born July 16, 1879 in Nirivilo ; † November 22, 1950 ibid) was a Chilean poet.

González was the fifth of nine children of Abdón González Rojas and Elinia Bastías Cáceres . He spent the first years of his life in his home village and then attended elementary school and the Liceo de Hombres in Talca . After the father's death, the family moved to Talca and settled there when the mother inherited the Infiernillo estate on the Río Maule in 1910 .

González initially stayed in Talca and then went to Santiago, where he led a bohemian life and published his first volume of poetry in 1911. He found recognition and his texts were published in various Latin American anthologies, but his income was not enough to support him.

So he finally returned to his family's estate, devoted himself to farming and only wrote sporadically. His poetry always revolved around themes of rural life, as the titles of his four volumes of poetry show: Misas de Primavera (1911), El Poema de la Tierras Pobres (1924), Vera Rústica (1933) and Del Venero Nativo (1940).

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SURNAME	González Bastías, Jorge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chilean poet
DATE OF BIRTH	July 16, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nirivilo
DATE OF DEATH	November 22, 1950
Place of death	Nirivilo