BYRNE 



BONIFACIO BYRNE 



Poet; journalist. 



Bonifacio Byrne was born in Pueblo 

 Nuevo a suburb of Matanzas on the third 

 of March, 1861. At seven years of age he 

 entered the Colegio "El Porvenir" in 

 Matanzas where he came under the influ- 

 ence of Antonio Luis Moreno, the director 

 of the school. Pupil until 1875, and after- 

 wards teacher in this institution, the in- 

 spiration and guidance of Moreno, added 

 to that master's illuminating teaching of 

 the poets, led young Byrne to choose poetry 

 as his vocation. Aside from Moreno, the 

 model and mentor of Byrne's early days 

 was the poet Nicanor A. Gonzales. 



Byrne's first appearance in print was in 

 his seventeenth year, when some of his 

 verses were published in a Matanzas 

 weekly, La Primavera. 



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