Ruben Dario

Azul

Modernist short stories and poems establishing Dario's influential aesthetic innovation

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Ruben Dario

Nicaraguan poet who launched the Modernismo movement that transformed Spanish-language poetry at the turn of the twentieth century. Azul and Prosas Profanas introduced musical, sensuous, and cosmopolitan currents into the Hispanic tradition.

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