Imitation

The period of Imitation 1910-1924

* By 1919, the UP College Folio published the literary compositions of the first Filipino writers in English.

* Their models included Longfellow and Hawthorne, Emerson and Thoreau, Wordsworth and Tennyson, Thackeray and Macaulay, Longfellow, Allan Poe, Irving and other American writers of the Romantic School.

* Writers of this folio included Fernando Maramag, Juan F. Salazar, Jose M. Hernandez, Vicente del Fierro and Francisco Tonogbanua, Maximo Kalaw, Vidal A. Tan, Francisco M. Africa and Victoriano Yamzon.

ESSAYS

* The noted essayists of this time were: Carlos P. Romulo, Jorge C. Bocobo, Mauro Mendez and Vicente Hilario.

* The next group of writers introduced the informal essay, criticism and the journalistic column.

* These group included Ignacio Manlapaz, Godefredo Rivera, Federico Mangahas, Francisco B Icasiano, Salvador P. Lopez, Jose Lansang and Amando G. Dayrit.

SHORT STORIES

* In the field of short stories , DEAD STARS by Paz Marquez Benitez written in early 1920’s

* Other short stories published during this time were but poor imitations of their foreign models.

* The UP College Folio was later replaced by the Phillipine Collegian.

Here are few of the writers during this Period:

1910: Bernardo P. Garcia’s poem GEORGE WASHINGTON

1917: Eulogio B. Rodriguez, a research writer in the UP College of Liberal Arts.

1919: Paz Marquez Benitez was editor of the WOMAN’s

1924: JOURNAL, the first literary magazine in English published in the Phillipines

1920: Marcelo de Gracia Concepcion gained recognition for Filipino poetry

1920: Procopio L. Solidum wrote NEVER MIND and OTHER POEMS

1921: Lorenzo E. Paredes wrote the 1st poetry anthology REMINISCENSES

1921: Zolio M. Galang published his 1st volume of essays entitled LIFE AND SUCCESS

1924: Eliseo Quirino and Vicente Hilario wrote the essays THINKING FOR OURSELVES

1924: Rodolfo Dato published FILIPINO POETRY

1924: Carlos P....