The Penguin Book of Latin American Verse

Enrique Caracciolo-Trejo was born in Argentina in 1932 and educated in Brazil, Italy, and Spain. He graduated at the University of Córdoba, Argentina, and later became Associate Professor of English and American Literature at the same university. His first collection of poems, Poemas y prédicas (1957), the first comprehensive Spanish-American poetry writing, was followed by several other volumes. His Hablamos, Melville y el puritanismo (1963). His critical and literary essays have been published both in Europe and Latin America. Since 1963 he has lived intermittently in the country, dividing his time between academic work in Britain, Italy and, interested in comparative literature, joined the Department of Literature at the University of Essex, where he is a lecturer in Spanish, married and has one son.