The Nezahualcoyotl Society: evidences of a nineteenth-century literary generation

The Sociedad Nezahualcoyotl was established in Mexico City in 1868. It began as a poetic project, but its members were soon identified as part of a new literary generation, twinned by an aesthetic program and political ideology. Such literary group, however, failed to develop fully because of the early death of some and the alienation of those who chose politics as a profession. This paper we confirms the assertions of his main mentor, Ignacio Manuel Altamirano: The Sociedad Nezahualcoyotl was an expression of Generation to 1867.