1
Quoted in Alicia S. Ostriker, Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America (Boston: Beacon Press, 1986), p. 587.
2
Lecture given by Darío in Montevideo in 1912, rpt. Alfar, 71 (1932), s. p.
3
For a discussion of this generation, see Emir Rodríguez Monegal, «La Generación del '900», Número 6-7-8 (1950), 37-61.
4
Sylvia Molloy convincingly describes the «aniñamiento» myth of Agustini and her relation with Darío in «Dos lecturas del cisne: Rubén Darío y Delmira Agustini», in La sartén por el mango, eds. Patricia E. González and Eliana Ortega (Río Piedras: Ediciones Huracán, 1985) pp. 57-69.
5
See Carlos Rama, Historia social del pueblo uruguayo (Montevideo: Editorial Comunidad del Sur, 1972), esp. pp. 105-26.
6
Prosas: crítica, cuentos, comentarios (Montevideo: Máximo García, 1918), p. 34.
7
«Modernismo y poesía», vol. 33, Enciclopedia Uruguaya (Montevideo: Arca, 1969), 62.
8
The Voice of the Masters: Writing and Authority in Modern Latin American Literature (University of Texas Press, 1985), pp. 8-32.
9
Voice of the Masters, p. 25.
10
Poesías completas, ed. Alberto Zum Felde, 3rd ed. (Buenos Aires: Losada, 1962), p. 50, hereafter indicated in text with page number in parentheses.