Article: The Routes of Modernity: Spanish American Poetry from the Early Eighteenth to the Mid-Nineteenth Century.(Book Review)

The Routes of Modernity: Spanish American Poetry from the Early Eighteenth to the Mid-Nineteenth Century. By ANDREW BUSH. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 434 pp. $69.50. ISBN 0-8387-5514-3.

Spanish American poetry of the century and a half to 1850 has not been a favoured period for deep study. It could be that Ruben Dario's dismissive comment in Prosas profanas (1896) regarding the poetry that preceded him has had an inhibiting effect on subsequent critics. In his review of that book Jose Enrique Rodo, who, like Manuel Gondra, had championed the earlier poets, considering the modernistas to be decadents, declared ...

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