Ruben Dario and the Romantic Search for Unity: The Modernist Recourse to ...

Rubn Daro and the Romantic Search for UnityThe Modernist Recourse to Esoteric Tradition\nAuthor(s): Cathy L. Jrade\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Texas Press, United States\nImprint: University of Texas Press\nISBN-13: 9780292744844, 978-0292744844\nSynopsis\nModernism was the major Spanish American literary movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Leader of that influential movement was Rubn Daro, the Nicaraguan now recognized as one of the most important Hispanic poets of all time. \n\n Like the Romantics in England and the Symbolists on the Continent, Daro and other Modernists were strongly influenced by occultist thought. But, as the poet Octavio Paz has written, \""academic criticism has ... preferred to close its eyes to the stream of occultism that runs throughout Daro's work. This silence damages our comprehension of his poetry.\"" \n\n Cathy Login Jrade's groundbreaking study corrects this critical oversight. Her work clearly demonstrates th.