The Intellectual Connection between the Brazilian Poet and Educator Cecília Meireles and the Mexican Writer-Ambassador Alfonso Reyes and his Projection as a Maestro for Brazilian University Youth (1930-1933)

Abstract

The present study analyzes the intellectual connection established between the Mexican writerambassador Alfonso Reyes and the Brazilian poet and educator Cecília Meireles, fundamentally through the exchange of correspondence, in the early 1930s. The assessment was based on the approach of the intellectual networks from the perspective of a relational analysis. I show how the relationship established between the two intellectuals was the basis for a joint intervention, articulated by both, in which the image of the Mexican writer-ambassador was related to that of a maestro, an intellectual and moral guide, for Brazilian university youth. This intervention was retrieved through the analysis of correspondence and other historical sources, such as the speeches given by Reyes to Brazilian students -which were later