Modernism was in its essence a literary movement that arises from a deep revulsion towards the bourgeois world. The movement opposes the utilitarianism and vulgarity of its time against a sublime beauty that seeks endlessly refined sensations of the senses brought to a degree of maximum sensual intensity.

The decadent atmosphere is frequent in modernist poetry, in contrast to the industrial atmosphere of modernity. The artist is torn between a world of unbridled luxury and enjoyment of the senses and its opposite feeling of deep melancholy and vital boredom, where autumn, twilight, and nocturnal landscapes abound.

Modernism had its highest representative in Rubén Darío. However, there were many other peninsular authors who were greatly influenced by this literary movement. Authors such as Manuel Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, or Valle Inclán, showed a clear influence by modernism, mainly in the first phases of their literary careers.

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