Kathleen T. O’Connor-Bater is Associate Professor of Modern Languages (Spanish/French) at the College at Old Westbury of the State University of New York. She has published a book of translation A Bilingual Anthology of Poems by Rubén Darío (1915). She has previously taught at Houghton College and Princeton University. She earned her PhD from Columbia University with a dissertation in the area of Spanish Cognitive Linguistics; she holds a master's degree in Liberal Studies from Johns Hopkins University.

• PrefaceAcknowledgments1. Historical Context of Darío’s Nicaragua2. The Life of the Poet According to Himself (and Others)3. Azul... and the Soul of Modernismo4. The Hour of the Melody5. Prosas Profanas y Otros Poemas Buenos Aires, 1896 and 1901 6. The "Complexe de Paris": Hugo, Verlaine, and Darío’s Mental Gallicism7. Mais quelqu’un troubla la fête: Disenchanted by the "Greece of France"8. Universal Clamor: Darío and Theodore Roosevelt’s United States9. Songs of Life and Hope, 190510. Mundial Magazine, 1911–191411. With Hugo, Strong: Romanticist Influence in Darío’s Modernismo12. The Weeping TitanAppendix AAppendix BBibliographyIndex