Rubén Darío's poetical path in the light of the parnasianismo. I: from Nicaragua to Paris

Abstract

Ruben Darío’s poetic career runs parallel to the intrinsic development of Hispanic Modernism, from his first Romantic and Parnassian attempts to his later assimilation of Decadentism and Symbolism novelties. 19th century French lyric, and specifically, the Parnasse contemporain school played a fundamental role in the origins of literary modernity of Hispanic letters. In its epicenter, Darío represented the evolution of the Fin de siècle spirit. From his first steps in Central America to his important stay in 1893 Paris, where the first contact with Symbolism happened, Parnassianism was undoubtedly the aesthetics that, almost exclusively, shaped the poetic voice of our major Modernist.