The Intellectual and Cultural Worlds of Rubén Darío

Kathleen T. O’Connor-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 Darío (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.

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Historical Context of Darío’s 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 Darío’s Mental Gallicism

7. Mais quelqu’un troubla la fête: Disenchanted by the "Greece of France"

8. Universal Clamor: Darío and Theodore Roosevelt’s United States

9. Songs of Life and Hope, 1905

10. Mundial Magazine, 1911–1914

11. With Hugo, Strong: Romanticist Influence in Darío’s Modernismo

12. The Weeping Titan

Appendix A

Appendix B

Bibliography

Index