Pomas Truncas

Una de las colecciones capitales del padre del modernismo en español «Y parece que el hondo mirar cosas dijera, especiosas y ungidas de miel y de veneno.» Para muchos, Rubén Darío es el padre del modernismo. Los poetas parnasianos y simbolistas franceses ejercieron una gran influencia en su obra, pero a partir de Prosas profanas (1896 y 1901) el estilo pionero de Azul (1888, revisado en 1890) se define para alcanzar nuevas alturas en Cantos de vida y esperanza (1905), considerado el mejor ejemplo de su poesía. Aquí el poeta vuelve a sus temas recurrentes para afirmar que el arte...

Gabriela Mistral (1889-1967), Chile's 'other' great poet of the twentieth century, is little known outside the Spanish-speaking world, and unlike Pablo Neruda has not been extensively translated into English. She deserves better, particularly as the first Latin American recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1945), and this selection of her poetry is designed to introduce her to an English-speaking public. Born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga in the Elqui valley in the 'little north' of Chile, she became a schoolteacher at the age of fifteen and went on to become an educator of international...

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Edición y estudio preliminar de José Ignacio Fernández Dougnac. Compuesta de dos volúmenes en un estuche de tapa dura. PVP: 40€ Cooedición con la Junta de Andalucía, la Universidad de Granada y la Diputación de Granada.