Stories and Poems/Cuentos y Poesías

Stories and Poems/Cuentos y PoesíasOne of the most important Latin American writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Nicaraguan poet and essayist Rubn Daro (the pen name of Flix Rubn Garca Sarmiento) is considered the high priest of the modernismo school of literature, known for its dazzling verbal virtuosity and technical perfection. The present volume contains a rich selection of Daro's best poems and stories, carefully chosen from Azul (Blue), Prosas profanas

along with external views

and the supernatural

and answers or hints are provided for selected exercises

it contains a wealth of encyclopedic information

each story is by a different writer from a different country

books on idylls

books on arabesques

books on historic costumes

in the Pyrenees and by the sea

as well as drawings by Pieter de Hooch and Paul Cézanne

Is there a pattern underlying the seemingly helter-skelter development of art in different cultures and at different times

Volumes 1 and 2