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Schopenhauer in Dante’s Garden of Eden: Melancholy and Rubén Darío’s “Autumnal”

Schopenhauer in Dante’s Garden of Eden: Melancholy and Rubén Darío’s “Autumnal” Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/comparative-literature/article-pdf/73/4/463/1383908/463mccloskey.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 JASON MCCLOSKEY Schopenhauer in Dante’s Garden of Eden: Melancholy and Rubén Darío’s “Autumnal” OT LONG AFTER his arrival in Chile from Nicaragua in 1886, Rubén Darío Npublished an article in the newspaper El mercurio, in which he lamented the present state of the arts. Speaking of Chilean poets in particular, he complains: “Casi todos permanecen silenciosos; casi todos han olvidado el amable comercio de las Gracias. Quiéncon la cartera del diplomático no cura si la Fama le ha encum- brado a la categoría del primer poeta filosófico de América; quién en prosaicas oficinas cuenta números en lugar de hemistiquios” (qtd. in Martínez, introduction 15; Almost all remain silent; almost all have forgotten the kind commerce with the Graces. One, with a diplomat’s briefcase, cares not if Fame has raised him to the rank of premier philosophical poet of America; another, in a prosaic office, counts numbers instead of hemistichs). Darío’s scorn for those accountants who waste their time in mundane offices balancing accounts and calculating profits reflects atypical modernista critique of contemporary bourgeois society. While people could be composing verses that bring the world closer to invisible spiritual http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Comparative Literature Duke University Press

Schopenhauer in Dante’s Garden of Eden: Melancholy and Rubén Darío’s “Autumnal”

McCloskey, Jason
Comparative Literature , Volume 73 (4) – Dec 1, 2021
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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/comparative-literature/article-pdf/73/4/463/1383908/463mccloskey.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 JASON MCCLOSKEY Schopenhauer in Dante’s Garden of Eden: Melancholy and Rubén Darío’s “Autumnal” OT LONG AFTER his arrival in Chile from Nicaragua in 1886, Rubén Darío Npublished an article in the newspaper El mercurio, in which he lamented the present state of the arts. Speaking of Chilean poets in particular, he complains: “Casi todos permanecen silenciosos; casi todos han olvidado el amable comercio de las Gracias. Quiéncon la cartera del diplomático no cura si la Fama le ha encum- brado a la categoría del primer poeta filosófico de América; quién en prosaicas oficinas cuenta números en lugar de hemistiquios” (qtd. in Martínez, introduction 15; Almost all remain silent; almost all have forgotten the kind commerce with the Graces. One, with a diplomat’s briefcase, cares not if Fame has raised him to the rank of premier philosophical poet of America; another, in a prosaic office, counts numbers instead of hemistichs). Darío’s scorn for those accountants who waste their time in mundane offices balancing accounts and calculating profits reflects atypical modernista critique of contemporary bourgeois society. While people could be composing verses that bring the world closer to invisible spiritual

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    Brann, Noel L.
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    Doss-Davezac, Shehira Jacquette, Dale
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    Hauptman, William
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    Jacoff, Rachel Mandelbaum, Allen Oldcorn, Anthony Ross, Charles
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    Jrade, Cathy Login
  • Commentaries and Notes
    Kirkpatrick, Robin. Kirkpatrick, Robin
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    Koßler, Matthias Barua, Arati Gerhard, Michael Koßler, Matthias
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    Martínez, José María
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    Miller, David M.
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    Patty, James S.