Selected Poems of Rubén Darío

by Rubén Darío

Book Overview

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 F lix Rub n Garc a Sarmiento (1867-1916) of Nicaragua, who called himself Rub n Dar o.

Since its original publication in 1965, this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292776152
• ISBN13: 9780292776159
• Release Date: January 1965
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"