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... alike astray . This is particularly true in the study of literary influences , where too often one man is represented as affecting another , when in reality they are both being acted upon by the same , THE " MODERNISTA ” RENOVATION 3.
... alike astray . This is particularly true in the study of literary influences , where too often one man is represented as affecting another , when in reality they are both being acted upon by the same , THE " MODERNISTA ” RENOVATION 3.
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... representing a group of highly refined spirits belonging to an old civilization , should undergo im- portant change in the virgin soil of a new continent . Par nassian impersonality , then , was an exception rather than the rule . By ...
... representing a group of highly refined spirits belonging to an old civilization , should undergo im- portant change in the virgin soil of a new continent . Par nassian impersonality , then , was an exception rather than the rule . By ...
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... represents a certain ease , an ele- gance , a grace , which however evanescent the product may be , are rooted in a cosmopolitan culture . More to the taste of the Spanish - American lover of verse is the tender mel- ancholy of such ...
... represents a certain ease , an ele- gance , a grace , which however evanescent the product may be , are rooted in a cosmopolitan culture . More to the taste of the Spanish - American lover of verse is the tender mel- ancholy of such ...
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... represent merely another phase of the essential , indestructible matter of being . We live in grief ; the great ambition of all that is , is to be lost in nothingness , to sleep without dreams . To the poet's distracted soul , there is ...
... represent merely another phase of the essential , indestructible matter of being . We live in grief ; the great ambition of all that is , is to be lost in nothingness , to sleep without dreams . To the poet's distracted soul , there is ...
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... represents her as dying at his birth , —a symbol of the wretched life he is to lead ; his spiritual landscape ( Paisaje Espiritual ) , like his Nostalgias , reveals a soul fearful alike of life or death ; more than once he displays the ...
... represents her as dying at his birth , —a symbol of the wretched life he is to lead ; his spiritual landscape ( Paisaje Espiritual ) , like his Nostalgias , reveals a soul fearful alike of life or death ; more than once he displays the ...
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Alma América Amado Nervo America Ariel artist attitude Azul beauty behold Blanco Blanco-Fombona Bolívar born called Casal Castilian century Chocano color conception continental Crispín critic death deep desire Díaz Mirón dream early Eguren epic epoch Epopeya essay eternal feels French glory González grief Gutiérrez Nájera heart Hugo human ideal influence inspiration intellectual José José Asunción Silva José Enrique Rodó JOSÉ SANTOS CHOCANO Julián del Casal labors language later literary literature live lyric Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera Martí Mexican modern modernist nation nature Nervo never night pantheism Parnassianism passion personality philosophy poem poet poet's poetic poetry political possesses Prosas Profanas prose reveals Rodó Rodó's Rubén Darío seems sense Silva sincerity sing song sonnet soul Spain Spanish Spanish America Spanish-American Spanish-American literature speak spirit style symbol Symbolists things thought tion truth Verlaine verse voice words writers youth
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Page 227 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 93 - The thing which hath been, it is that which shall be ; and that which is done, is that which shall be done ; and there is no new thing under the sun.
Page 163 - ¡Juventud, divino tesoro; ya te vas para no volver ! . . . Cuando quiero llorar, no lloro, ya veces lloro sin querer...
Page 9 - Car nous voulons la Nuance encor, Pas la couleur, rien que la nuance!
Page 64 - Una noche, una noche toda llena de murmullos, de perfumes y de músicas de alas; una noche en que ardían en la sombra nupcial y húmeda las luciérnagas fantásticas, a mi lado lentamente, contra mí ceñida toda, muda y pálida, como si un presentimiento de amarguras infinitas...
Page 182 - ... as the case may be (if, indeed, I do not transcend the creature), but which, anyhow, is all that can ever come within my knowledge of his soul. The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
Page 158 - ÍNCLITAS razas ubérrimas, sangre de Hispania fecunda, espíritus fraternos, luminosas almas, ¡salve! Porque llega el momento en que habrán de cantar nuevos himnos lenguas de gloria. Un vasto rumor llena los ámbitos; mágicas ondas de vida van renaciendo de pronto...
Page 167 - Un gran vuelo de cuervos mancha el azul celeste. Un soplo milenario trae amagos de peste. Se asesinan los hombres en el extremo Este. ¿Ha nacido el apocalíptico Anticristo? Se han sabido presagios y prodigios se han visto y parece inminente el retorno de Cristo.
Page 30 - Mi duquesita, la que me adora, No tiene humos de gran señora: Es la griseta de Paul de Kock. No baila Boston, y desconoce De las carreras el alto goce, Y los placeres del five o'clock.
Page 154 - En mi jardín se vio una estatua bella; se juzgó mármol y era carne viva; un alma joven habitaba en ella, sentimental, sensible, sensitiva.