Darío on the United States

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Notes

1 Darío’s reference is to B. D. Woodward, Assistant Commissioner-General of the United States to the Paris Exposition of 1900, whose description of the Exposition (excerpted here) was published in The North American Review 170:521 (April 1900), 472-479.

2 Poetry selections, including “Saluting the Eagle,” “The Great Cosmopolis,” and “To Roosevelt,” translated by Greg Simon and Steven F. White, in Rubén Darío: Selected Writings, edited by Ilan Stavans (New York: Penguin, 2005).

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Jorge Eduardo Arellano

Jorge Eduardo Arellano (Granada, Nicaragua, 1946), former ambassador to Chile, is currently secretary of the Academy of Nicaraguan Geography and History and directs its journal. Poet, narrator, essayist, philologist, and historian, he has published fourteen volumes of poetry, two short novels, four books of stories, investigations of Nicaraguan and Central American literature, and editions of Rubén Darío’s work.