Wow!!! 1951 CORNELIO F. FAIGAO Thesis For Master Of The Arts Univ Of San Carlos Bound Book

This was written about the poetry of Jose Garcia Villa who was a gay poet in the early 1900s. It was written in 1951 by C Faigao. It was professionally brown however not graded.
This is in great condition no missing pages. Book 129 pages
CORNELIO F. FAIGAO was born in Banton, Romblon on 31 March 1908 to Rufo and Bonifacia Festin. Rufo had served as the island-town's "presidente municipal" due to his eloquence and charisma as a public speaker.
Cornelio started writing verses in elementary school. He then went to Romblon High School at the capital town where he graduated in 1925 as the class salutatorian and poet. He proceeded to take a degree in Education at the University of the Philippines. Some of Faigao's poems were published in UP's Philippine Collegian edited at that time by Jose Garcia Villa. Finishing his degree he went to Cebu in 1929 and taught English at the Cebu Trade School and the Cebu Provincial High School. In 1935 Faigao took up law classes and eventually passed the bar exams in 1940. He did not practice law though and instead joined the faculty of the Southern Institute. Faigao's name as a writer had by then known to readers of the Philippine Free Press, Graphic, Philippine Magazine, and Philippines Herald. In 1951 he earned an MA in English from the University of San Carlos with a thesis on "The Religious Elements in the Poetry of Jose Garcia Villa". In the same year his poem, "The Brown Child", won first prize in the Golden Jubilee of the Philippine educational system.
An active journalist Faigao served as editor and columnist for various Cebu newspapers. In 1954 he became a recipient of a Smith-Mundt Travel Award to the US in recognition for his work a a journalist. He eventually served as the Chair of the English Department of the USC.
Faigao married Rosita Go of Argao, Cebu in 1940 and they had two sons and a daughter: Mabuhay, Bataan, and Linda Kalayaan. Bataan eventually became a poet like his father and Linda a playwright.
Faigao has two published poetry collections to his name: "The Song of the Hos-Katting" in 1936, and "Song of Freedom" in 1940. This is aside from some unpublished ones now kept at the Cebuano Studies Center like "Corn Leaves and Other Poems" (1934), "Inday and other Cebu Poems" (1939), and "Let a Rose Tumble Down" (1940).
Faigao died of a liver ailment on 8 May 1959 at a young age of 51.
Starting in 1984 the Cebuano Studies Center, with the assistance of his children, has held an Annual Writers Workshop in his honor.
Source: Cornelio Faigao: Imagining Cebu, or the Phenomenology of the Romantic Imagination by Marjorie Evasco, Philippine Quarterly of Culture & Society 31 (2003): 331-346
Unknown to many outside Romblon Cornelio Faigao also wrote in his mother tongue, the Asi/Bantoanon. He has a short story, "Mga Gintong Puso", published in the January 1927 issue of the Bag-ong Iwag (New Light), the second vernacular paper in Romblon. And of course a poem, "Patawar sa Kahilum", of which he has also written an English version:

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