Ricardo Jaimes Freyre

Ricardo Jaimes Freyre ( born May 12, 1868 in Tacna, Peru, † April 24, 1933 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a Bolivian writer and diplomat.

Freyre was born the son of the Bolivian consul and writer Julio Lucas Jaimes. Freyre belongs with Ruben Dario of the founders of modernism significant for the Revista de America. He was Bolivian ambassador, among others in Chile and in the U.S., taught philosophy and literature in Tucumán.

One of the most important works of early modernism created Freyre in 1899 with his first book of poems Castalia bárbara (1899), thematically leaning against the Germanic and Norse mythology, this design world a distinct meaning conferring, writing in suggestive selected expression with a high musicality of his language, entirely in keeping with the new aesthetic program. The result is a diverse world of dreams and mysteries.

With the collection of poems Los sueños son vida (1917 ) continued this Freyre continues with themes from Greek mythology and revolutionary Russia.

The science-based study on prosody and metrics, Leyes de versificacion castellana (1912 ), and the historical representation Historia del descubrimiento de Tucumán (1916 ) are among his most important works. He also published some stories in the Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Letras, which he had co-founded.