Abstract
This chapter provides an overview on Leopoldo Lugones, who is the most important Argentinian modernista and one of the most accomplished of all the modernistas. His poetic and political career was very varied. He joined the Socialist Party the same year and most of the poems in his first book, Las montanas del oro, have strong political overtones. Later, he got to know the work of Nietzsche and traded solidarity for resigned individuality, and the tone of his next books, Los crepúsculos del jardin and Lunario sentimental, is correspondingly quieter and subtler. Unlike the other modernistas in his Odas seculares selection, Lugones continued to write copiously during and after the First World War and kept abreast of literary developments in Europe, which he visited several times; in 1924, he received the Argentinian national prize for literature.
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