Arias Augusto Robalino (Quito, March 15, 1903 – Quito, August 23, 1974) was an Ecuadorian poet, essayist, biographer, anthologist, scholar, university professor, and literary critic. His poetry exemplifies modernismo in early twentieth-century Ecuador. His poetry collection “Del sentir” (1920) is considered one of the major works in Ecuadorian literature. He was a fervent scholar of Ecuadorian literature and as such wrote biographies on Ecuadorian authors such as Eugenio Espejo, Luis A. Martínez, and Pedro Fermín Cevallos. He also wrote several studies, such as “Panorama de la literatura ecuatoriana” (Quito, 1948), “España en los Andes” (Madrid, 1950), and ”El viajero de papel” (Quito, 1968), to name a few. He also compiled and edited the poetry anthology “Antología de poetas ecuatorianos” [Anthology of Ecuadorian Poets] (Quito, 1944) with Antonio Montalvo.
Works
Poetry
- Del sentir (Quito, 1920)
- Poemas íntimos (Quito, 1921)
- El corazón de Eva (Quito, 1927)
- Canto a Beatriz (Quito, 1945)
Essay/nonfiction
- En elogio de Ambato (Quito, 1926)
- Virgilio en castellano (Quito, 1930)
- La estética del barroco (Quito, 1932)
- Jorge Isaacs y su María (Quito, 1937)
- El periodismo ecuatoriano (Quito, 1938)
- Páginas de Quito (Quito, 1939)
- Tres ensayos (Quito, 1941)
- Literatura general (Quito, 1941)
- Alberto Guillén, el buscador de sí mismo (México, 1942)
- Los problemas económico-sociales y su expresión literaria en América (México, 1943)
- Viaje (Quito, 1943)
- Antología de poetas ecuatorianos -en colaboración con Antonio Montalvo- (Quito, 1944)
- Panorama de la literatura ecuatoriana (Quito, 1948)
- España en los Andes (Madrid, 1950)
- España eterna (Quito, 1952)
- Obras selectas (Quito, 1962)
- El viajero de papel (Quito, 1968)
Biography
- Mariana de Jesús (Quito, 1929)
- El cristal indígena -vida de Eugenio Espejo- (Quito, 1934)
- Luis A. Martínez (Quito, 1937)
- Semblanzas (Quito, 1941)
- Vida de Pedro Fermín Cevallos (Quito, 1946).