ABSTRACT
In the light of the work of Ruben Dario, the footsteps of the Hispano-American context in Spanish modernism are more than evident, and it is impossible to refer to modernism in the peninsular space without bearing this in mind. Octavio Paz, in Los hijos del limo, put this with outstanding clarity: modernism is the true Romanticism of Hispano-American Literature. There is no difficulty in agreeing that the period of time between 1890 and 1936 represents one of the most passionate moments of Iberian literary history. It is true that the process of modernism runs mostly parallel in Portugal and in Spain, with similar chronological boundaries and a timeline enabling us to draw lines that cross the entire Peninsular map. Castro became the most evident bastion of Portuguese poetry in Spain, and a definitive example of the survival and superposition of aesthetics which form part of the chain of modernity.
