Abstract
For the first time in Czech, the book introduces in such an extent the poets of Hispanic America (coming from these countries: Mexico, Cuba, Uruguay, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Nicaragua) who wrote their works within the peculiar aesthetic movement called "modernismo", at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. This movement is shown in its great variety, which consists also in the tension between the traditional poem coming from romanticism and new forms of poetry which announce future avant-garde.
The book offers poems written by 11 male (Manuel González Prada, Salvador Díaz Mirón, José Martí, Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera, Julián del Casal, José Asunción Silva, Rubén Darío, Amado Nervo, José Juan Tablada, Leopoldo Lugones, Julio Herrera y Reissig) and 4 female poets (María Eugenia Vaz Ferreira, Juana Borrero, Delmira Agustini, Alfonsina Storni); all selected poems had not been published in Czech translation and, in the anthology, they appear together with their original version in Spanish.