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          This category is for articles about poets from the South American country of Guyana.

        1. This category is for articles about poets from the South American country of Guyana.
        2. The most extensive scholarly effort to reconstruct the biography of Egbert is that ences and allusions to St Martin frame his poem, and his biography, from.
        3. Egbert Martin, also known as 'Leo' was a bedridden poet whose work was first published in the nineteenth century and, more recently, by the Caribbean Press.
        4. Very little is remembered and recorded of Martin's life.
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          6. Egbert Martin, also known as 'Leo' was a bedridden poet whose work was first published in the nineteenth century and, more recently, by the Caribbean Press.!

          Egbert Martin

          19th-century Guyanese poet

          Egbert Martin (c.

          &#;&#; June 23, ), writing under the aliasLeo, was a 19th-century Guyanese poet.[1][2]

          His poetry deal mostly with spiritual topics, while also focusing on the themes of African-Guianese history.

          Recurring themes of his works include change, disintegration, and death, which have been frequently associated with his frail health condition.[3] Martin was highly regarded by contemporary critics and is considered as Guyana's first major poet, despite his death from tuberculosis at the age of [4] He is regarded as the founder of modern Guyanese literature.

          Life

          Martin was born in Georgetown, British Guiana, to a journeyman tailor. Guyanese poet[4] and essayist A. J. Seymour described him as "a fair Mulatto" (implying a mixture of White and Afro-Guyanese ancestry) who from his early youth was "confined to an invalid's bed, as a result of illness."[1][