Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darķo (1867-1916) has had a foundational influence on virtually all Spanish-language writers and poets of the twentieth century and beyond. Yet, while he is a household name among Hispano-phone readers, the seminal modernista remains virtually unknown to an English readership. This book examines the writings of Rubén Darķo as both poet and chronicler, as he renovates language drawing lessons from ancient mythologies to embrace the ideal of "art for arts sake," all the while opposing United States aggression in the hemisphere along with the pseudo-Bohemian European bourgeoisie in poetry and prose at the cusp of the Great War.
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Historical Context of Darķos Nicaragua
2. The Life of the Poet According to Himself (and Others)
3. Azul... and the Soul of Modernismo
4. The Hour of the Melody
5. Prosas Profanas y Otros Poemas Buenos Aires, 1896 and 1901
6. The "Complexe de Paris": Hugo, Verlaine, and Darķos Mental Gallicism
7. Mais quelquun troubla la fźte: Disenchanted by the "Greece of France"
8. Universal Clamor: Darķo and Theodore Roosevelts United States
9. Songs of Life and Hope, 1905
10. Mundial Magazine, 19111914
11. With Hugo, Strong: Romanticist Influence in Darķos Modernismo
12. The Weeping Titan
Appendix A
Appendix B
Bibliography
Index
Kathleen T. OConnor-Bater is Associate Professor of Modern Languages (Spanish/French) at the College at Old Westbury of the State University of New York. She has published a book of translation A Bilingual Anthology of Poems by Rubén Darķo (1915). She has previously taught at Houghton College and Princeton University. She earned her PhD from Columbia University with a dissertation in the area of Spanish Cognitive Linguistics; she holds a master's degree in Liberal Studies from Johns Hopkins University.
