Despite their accusations of "mental Gallicism", two letters from Juan Valera are included as a prologue to one of this author's collections.
This author wrote a poem in which "the thirst of infinite desire" drives the speaker to continually request "More!" from a fairy-maiden, who leads him to the radiant face of a woman. Despite their accusations of "mental Gallicism", two letters from Juan Valera are included as a prologue to one of this author's collections. This author of "Autumnal" wrote a poem that begins by describing the sea as "a vast silvered mirror" that "reflects the sky like a sheet of zinc". He exclaims "although you (*) count on everything, you lack one thing: God!" in a poem from his Songs of Life and Hope that calls its title figure a "professor of Energy" and an "Alexander-Nebuchadnezzar". "Symphony in Gray Major" is a poem from this man's collection "Prosas Profanas". For 10 points, name this author of "To Roosevelt" and the collection Azul..., the Nicaraguan founder of modernismo.
This author wrote a poem in which "the thirst of infinite desire" drives the speaker to continually request "More!"
Rubén Darío [or Félix Rubén García Sarmiento]