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articles and a few books have been written about Rubén Darío. The anti-Darío literature was none too scarce, ten years ago, either in Spain or in America; but, as a rule, it has no value whatever. Already, although he was living until this year, the Histories of Spanish Literature speak of his influence: see, for instance, the last editions, in French and Spanish, of Mr. James Fitzmaurice-Kelly's well-known book, and M. Ernest Mérimée's Précis. Among the most important English writers who speak of his work, I remember Mr. Havelock Ellis (vide the articles entitled The Spanish People and Don Quixote, in the book The Soul of Spain).

Among the Spanish critics: the most eminent of all, Don Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, Historia de la poesía hispano-americana, chapter on Central America (Madrid, 1911); Juan Valera, article on ''Azul. . . in Cartas americanas, primera serie, 1889; Andrés González Blanco, Estudio preliminar, already mentioned above; Francisco Navarro Ledesma, José Martinez Ruiz (Azorín), Juan R. Jiménez, Antonio y Manuel Machado, and several others, in special edition of the review Renacimiento'', Madrid, 1907; Gregorio

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