Campo, Estanislao del

Campo, Estanislao del

▪ Argentine poet and journalist
born Feb. 7, 1834, Buenos Aires, Arg.
died Nov. 6, 1880, Buenos Aires

      Argentine poet and journalist whose Fausto is one of the major works of gaucho poetry (gaucho literature).

      Campo descended from a patrician family and fought to defend Buenos Aires against General Justo José de Urquiza (Urquiza, Justo José de)'s troops. He continued his military career while writing, and he rose to the rank of captain (1861), then colonel (1874). He became a newspaperman, writing with harsh humour in support of liberal causes. In 1855 he began writing romantic poetry. Two years later he published his gaucho poem “Décimas,” written in the style of fellow Argentine Hilario Ascasubi (1807–75), who used the byname Aniceto the Rooster. Campo's major work is the 1,278-line Fausto: Impresiones del gaucho Anastasio el Pollo en la representación de ésta ópera (1866; “Faust: Impressions of the Gaucho Anastasio the Chicken on the Presentation of This Opera”; published in English as Faust).

      The stimulus for Fausto was Campo's own presence at a performance of the French composer Charles Gounod (Gounod, Charles)'s opera Faust. Campo was inspired to retell the story of Gounod's Faust in verse form, in the language and style of a rough-hewn gaucho whom he named Anastasio the Chicken. Campo used caricature, vignettes of gaucho life, a paean to nature, and earthy rural humour to parody the opera's cultured urban audience.

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