Prosas Profanas
Marquises out of Watteau, Greek fauns, a princess in Japanese lacquer, and above all the swan, whose curved neck is asked over and over what the future holds. A preface refuses to write for the crowd and declares that the grandfather of every Spanish American is a conquistador, and the verse behind it works a metrical range Castilian had not attempted. Spanish American modernismo at its most decorative, and the volume most in debt to Verlaine, whom Darío called father and magical master.
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- ↓ Sonatina
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