Apollinaire to Aragon. Thirty Modern French Poets; An Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry

Hace unos días, I watched “The Turn of the Screw.” Esa famosa versión I’d fetichized for years. Décadas, actually. Years ago mi estudiante Sasha Fariña (creo recordar que she was a CMC science student, enrolled in my Latin American poetry seminar) fisgó en el internido y teorizó que it had actually been a TV special. Me acuerdo que that didn’t sound right to me, and I let it drift back down hacia el ether del olvido. Pero después de trabajar todo el santo día en Operasie Restorasie (as Wim baptised my writing process para Our Ubuntu, Montenegro) me sentí bien burnt out and in the invisible linksy way of things de repente on a whim hice Google el film--for the millionth time. Esta vez, instead of the myriad other versions que siempre he descartado al tiro al ver el cast o el año (“The Innocents” con la Deborah Kerr es bien spooky, pero way too early; la 1999 version con la sublime Jodhi May también es buena, pero too late), bingo, this could be it, me dije.

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19th Century and Modernismo Poetry in Spanish America

Latin American Studies ◽

10.1093/obo/9780199766581-0228 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra

Keyword(s):

19Th Century ◽

Latin American ◽

Mexican Revolution ◽

American Poetry ◽

Spanish America ◽

Ruben Dario ◽

Critical Studies ◽

Latin American Poetry ◽

National Differences ◽

Andres Bello

The timeline of the long 19th century in Spanish America can be defined by different chronological benchmarks. While some historians mark its beginning with the expulsion of the Jesuits (1767) and the creation of the Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata (1776), others set its beginnings with the wars of independence (1791–1822). Historians also disagree on its ending. Some choose the end of the Mexican Revolution (1917), while others push further to the foundation of the Partido Nacional Revolucionario in Mexico, in 1929. For this entry, it is preferable to signal the beginning and end of 19th century in Latin America with milestones more closely related to poetry: 1805–1916. The former marks the publication of the first issue of El Diario de México, where the creations of the local Arcadia appeared while the latter marks the death of Rubén Darío and the first edition of Ramón López Velarde’s La sangre devota. Even within these strict chronological limits, offering a panoramic view of the poetry written throughout the continent is difficult. Before the advanced printing technologies that allowed the first truly massive newspapers to circulate in Buenos Aires and Mexico City that would spawn the advent of literary Modernismo, it is nearly impossible to speak of poets of true Pan American stature. Andrés Bello (b. 1781–d. 1865) and José María Heredia (b. 1842–d. 1905) are the exception. These two poets exerted considerable influence as is evident in the importance that was granted to them in the first published anthology of Latin American Poetry, América poética 1846–1847, and even much later by Spanish philologist Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo (b. 1856–d. 1912) in his four-volume anthology, Antología de poetas hispano-americanos publicada por la Real Academia Española 1893–1895. Generally, authors had considerable national and at times regional influence but rarely achieved continental recognition. Consequently, this disjointed geography leads to a very large number of critical studies dedicated to local spheres with very few satisfactorily going beyond the realm of the national. This absence reflects a period when the most pressing need was to create national differences.

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