Poetry · 1904–1969
Poetry
Emeterio Gutiérrez Albelo was a poet and teacher born in Icod de los Vinos. Educated in La Laguna, he became linked to the islands' literary avant-garde through works such as Campanario de la primavera, Romanticismo y cuenta nueva and Enigma del invitado.
Emeterio Gutiérrez Albelo was born in Icod de los Vinos in 1904. He died in Santa Cruz de Tenerife on 6 August 1969. The Academia Canaria de la Lengua presents him as a poet educated in secondary studies and teacher training in La Laguna, and as a lifelong teacher.
His first published book was Campanario de la primavera (1930), written in Vilaflor. He later published Romanticismo y cuenta nueva (1933) and Enigma del invitado (1936), both issued by the Tenerife avant-garde journal Gaceta de Arte.
The consulted sources differ on the exact day of birth: the Library of Congress gives 17 August and the Academia Canaria de la Lengua gives 20 August. The year 1904, his education, teaching and principal works define the documented biographical frame.
