Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano
Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano was a modern Mexican poet, literary critic, editor, and teacher.
Ortiz de Montellano visited the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria. He taught at the Escuela de Verano, a school of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and served as bookrevisor of the Secretaría de Educación Pública.
He was member of the literary group Nuevo Ateneo de la Juventud, which was founded in 1918 by Ortiz de Montellano, Jaime Torres Bodet, José Gorostiza, and others. The members of the group wrote for magazines and journals. In 1928 he was co-founder of the magazine "Contemporáneos" and was director of it from June 1928 through December 1931. He was also an occasional editor of the literary magazine "Letras de México", published from 1937 to 1947, chief-editor of "El Trovador", and was co-founder of the Cuadernos Americanos group.
Works
Avidez, 1921El trompo de los siete colores, 1925Antología de cuentos mexicanos Red, 1928Literatura de la Revolución y literatura revolucionaria, 1930Pantomima, 1930Primer sueño, 1931El Sombrerón,, 1931Sueños, 1933La poesía indígena de México, 1935Muerte del cielo azul, 1936Martes de carnavalFigura, amor y muerte de Amado Nervo, 1943El Sombrerón, 1946La cabeza de SaloméSombra y luz de Ramón López Velarde, 1946Literatura indígena y colonial mexicana, 1946Conversación epistolar a propósito del libro Sueños, 1946Compiled and posthumously edited:Sueño y poesía, by Wilberto Cantón, 1952Obras en Prosa, by María de Lourdes Franco Bagnouls, 1988