Eleven Poems of Rubén Darío (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from Eleven Poems of Ruben Dario With the death of Ruben Dario, the Spanish language loses its greatest poet of to-day, - the greatest because of the aesthetic value and the historical significance of his work. No one, since the times of Gongora and Quevedo, has wielded an influence comparable, in renewing power, to Dario's. Zorrilla's influence, for instance, was enormous, but not in the sense of a true innovation: when it spread, the romantic movement he represented was already the dominant force in our literature. Dario did much more, in prosody and in style as well as in the spirit of poetry. Dario's victory was not without surprising elements, especially because, born in the New World, he was unreservedly acclaimed by the - intellectual groups of our former metropolis, Madrid. The homage of the Spanish writers to Dario was great and sincere. Even Royal Academicians, in spite of the timidity natural in traditional institutions, paid signal tribute to his genius. Upon the news of his death, the writers and artists of Spain, headed by Valle-Inclan (the greatest literary force in the present generation), organized a movement to erect a monument to his memory in the royal gardens of the Buen Retiro. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."










Eleven Poems


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Selected Poems of Rubén Darío


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Toward the close of the last century, the poetry of the Spanish-speaking world was pallid, feeble, almost a corpse. It needed new life and a new direction. The exotic, erratic, revolutionary poet who changed the course of Spanish poetry and brought it into the mainstream of twentieth-century Modernism was Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (1867-1916) of Nicaragua, who called himself Rubén Darío. Since its original publication in 1965, this edition of Darío's poetry has made English-speaking readers better acquainted with the poet who, as Enrique Anderson Imbert said, "divides literary history into 'before' and 'after.'" The selection of poems is intended to represent the whole range of Darío's verse, from the stinging little poems of Thistles to the dark, brooding lines of Songs of the Argentine and Other Poems. Also included, in the Epilogue, is a transcript of a radio dialogue between two other major poets, Federico García Lorca of Spain and Pablo Neruda of Chile, who celebrate the rich legacy of Rubén Darío.




Tropical Town and Other Poems


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Poems by a late Nicaraguan writer. In A Prayer for the United States, he wrote: "Apocalyptic blasts are ravaging over-sea. / With lure of flag and conquest the harlot War is wooing. / The horse John saw in Patmos its dread course is pursuing. / I pray the Lord He shelter the stars that shelter me."




Books in Print


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Major 20th-century Writers


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VOL. 1 (A-D) VOL. 2 (E-K) VOL 3. (L-Q) VOL. 4 (R-Z/INDEXES).




Pluriverse


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The most comprehensive selection of poems in English by Latin America's legendary poet-activist, Ernesto Cardenal.