The excellent translator of the poem, Walter Owen, has managed to retain the meter of the original Spanish version. Jose Hernandez died on October 21, 1886, in the town of Belgrano, near Buenos Aires. Beginning in the mid-19th century, after the heyday of the gauchos, Argentine writers celebrated them. From their own ballads and legends a literature of the gaucho la literatura gauchesca grew and became an important part of the Argentine cultural tradition. In the poetic narrative's second part, "The Return of Martin Fierro," 1879, the gaucho hero is reintegrated into the society he had abandoned. In January 1871, he returned to Buenos Aires and wrote his gaucho epic "El gaucho Martin Fierro." He accurately depicted the life of a persecuted gaucho and well rendered the gaucho's voice into poetic form.Sarmiento's government in 1870, Hernandez fled to Brazil After the unsuccessful revolt against President Domingo F. From 1853 to 1868 he engaged in provincial political struggles. Drafted into the frontier military, he loses his home and family.īorn Novem(Argentines still celebrate his birthday as "Tradition Day") in Chacra de Pueyrredon, Buenos Aires, at age 14, he left Buenos Aires because of illness to live in the healthier countryside, the pampas, where he learned the ways of the gauchos. "Martin Fierro" (1872) by José Hernández of Argentina In the excerpts that follow, the Argentine gauchesco poet relates the unhappy but typical tale of a gaucho.
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