Romanticism and gauchesco genre, usually, have been read for a long time in the River Plate as two artistic and aesthetic simultaneous movements. Very little works have centered in the possibilities of the crossings and loans between one and another production, contributing to consolidate this way the distance between cultured poetry and popular poetry, circumscribing moreover the circuit of the learned culture to the narrow area of the elites. This work proposes to rethink, by contrast, the circuit of the learned culture from the analysis of the popular press of Buenos Aires during the first period of the decade of 1830. For this purpose, there is revised the production of the popular gazetteer Luis Pérez, whose papers - written the majority entirely in verses - exploited in a singular way the potentials of the gauchesco genre. The attentive reading of this type of press will provide, likewise, a rereading of the manners with which the learned elite constructed his own tradition regarding the gaucho and the genre as well.
Gauchos; Gauchesco genre; Luis Pérez; Romanticism; Popular press