Marina Paniagua Blanc
Esta incursión en la poesía del neogranadino José Fernández Madrid es un acercamiento a su vida viajera real y ficticia, marcada por el exilio, el breve regreso y la huida en un periplo que se cierra con su muerte. Fueron desplazamientos condicionados por el momento histórico, en el que el autor se debatió entre lo personal y la épica emancipadora. Para este acercamiento se ha utilizado esencialmente la edición de sus poemas de 1828, pero también otros que no fueron recogidos en aquella recopilación, en la que colaboraron sus amigos Bello y Olmedo. Con ello se hace una aportación a la visión de la poesía de un autor muy polémico, con defensores y detractores y con una obra condicionada por las andanzas entre la Nueva Granada natal y sus estancias forzadas en Cuba, Francia e Inglaterra.
This incursion into the poetry of José Fernández Madrid from New Granada is a perusal of his real and fictitious travelling life; marked by exile, a brief return and flight, in wanderings that ended only with his death. His wanderings were conditioned by the historic moment, in which the author was torn between his personal life and epic emancipation. For this approach, we have mainly used the edition of his poems of 1828, but also others that were not collected in that edition, in which his friends Bello and Olmedo collaborated. We thus contribute a particular view of the poetry of a highly controversial author, with both defenders and detractors, whose work is conditioned by his wanderings between New Granada, his place of birth, and his forced sojourns in Cuba, France and England.