Modernism in El Salvador and assimilation of French Poetry

Abstract

The different French poetic trends in the 19th century, from Romanticism to Symbolism, not forgetting the importance of Parnassianism, helped to give birth to and consolidate Modernism in the Spanish-speaking countries. El Salvador, due to its geopolitical situation during the last thirty years of the 19th century, developed a literary system which, from very early, was one of the first and most decisive bastions of assimilation of these tendencies. Thanks to the translation, desemination and creative work by authors such as Mayorga Rivas, Gavidia and the young Darío, Salvadorian Modernism to the lead in this process, radiating its poetic cosmopolitism to other areas under its influence. Precisely because of this, because of the pristine and quality features of its Modernism, El Salvador was also one of the last Hispanic countries to overcome Fin de Siècle aesthetics and be incorporated into modernity.