Poet-Errant: A Biography of Rub�Dar�

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag mit Klarsichtfolie eingeschlagen, Schutzumschlag berieben, mit Randl�ren und leichten Einrissen, roter Kopfschnitt, Ex Libris von Minna Gross und Sticker 'The Personal Library of Daniel Avila' auf Vorsatz, Buch innen sauber / dust jacket wrapped in clear film, dust jacket rubbed, with edge wear and light tears, red head edge, ex libris of Minna Gross and sticker 'The Personal Library of Daniel Avila' on endpaper, book inside clean. - After a difficult childhood and precocious youth Ruben Dario became Latin America's most widely known writer, the acknowledged champion of a new style of prose and poetry called modernismo. This book follows the course of his extensive travels, his varied loves, the triumphs and suffering of his intellectual life. It shows Dario in the differing environments of the Central America of his youth, then Chile in a period of prosperity, Buenos Aires emerging as a metropolis towards the end of the nineteenth century, and finally Paris and Madrid as they were before the first World War. Dario became a spokesman for the spiritual aims of his race and his times, a representative figure whose works are still today, fifty years after his death, more generally read in Spanish countries than those of any other Spanish-American. The author, a graduate of Swarthmore, studied at Johns Hopkins with the Spanish poet Pedro Salinas. He has done extensive research in Chile, Central America and Spain, and has taught at Johns Hopkins, Goucher College and Union College. / CONTENTS Introduction Chapter I. Backgrounds � Personal and National Chapter II. First Schooling and First Creations Chapter III. White Doves and Stormy Weather Chapter IV. Grist for the Mill Chapter V. First Station on a Restless Journey Chapter VI. An Opportunity Grasped Chapter VII. The Bitterest Disillusion a Man in Love Can Know Chapter VIII. Thistles Chapter IX. Azul Chapter X. A Tropical Intermezzo Chapter XI. Hail, Fraternal Spirits, Luminous Souls! Chapter XII. The New Cosmopolis Chapter XIII. The End of the Empire Chapter XIV. Songs of Life and Hope Chapter XV. The Errant Song Chapter XVI. An Unexpected Apotheosis, Then an Undeserved Fiasco Chapter XVII. The Golden Isle Chapter XVIII. Tantus Labor Non Sit Cassus Chapter XIX. Gere Guram Mei Finis.