By the end of his life, this poet was so embarrassed by the excess sentimentality of his first two books of poetry that he destroyed every copy he could find. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Nobel laureate and champion of “naked” or “pure poetry.” This author gained popularity in the U.S. after the publication of a prose poem about a silver donkey titled Platero y Yo.
ANSWER: Juan Ramón Jiménez [or Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón]
[10e] Jiménez wrote a collection of “Spiritual” poems in this form. Poems in the Spenserian type of this form consist of three quatrains and a couplet.
ANSWER: sonnets [or Spenserian sonnets; accept Spiritual Sonnets or Sonetos espirituales]
[10m] Jiménez first moved to Madrid after being discovered by this author. This Nicaraguan modernismo author wrote the collection Azul….
ANSWER: Rubén Darío [or Félix Rubén García Sarmiento]
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