La 'Copa del Rey de Thule' by Francisco Villaspesa: Poetic manfiest from Spanish modernism

It was one hundred years ago when Francisco Villaspesa's book 'La copa del rey de Thule,' was first published. Nowadays his work still shows great int erest and remarkable appreciation, recognized within the study of Spanish p oetry, because it can be fully considered as the first set of 'modernista' poems written in Spain. Before its publication - the preceding titles of ea rly Spanish books of modernism such as Ninfeas, Almas de violeta by Juan Ra mon, and the works of significance to symbolism, Alma o Soledades by Machad o, offers to the claim for the unquestionable role played by Villaspesa wit h regards to spreading new literary trends at the beginning of the 20th cen tury, especially in accordance with the assimilation of parnasianism and th e decadent movement imported from Hispanoamerica. In addition LCRT should b e considered as a poetic inaugural manifesto of Spanish modernism.