[470] después de habérselo anunciado. The more correct usage is, después que se lo han anunciado.
[471] continuando de, unusual for continuando a.
[472] el movimiento revolucionario de nuestra literatura. The publication of Echeverría’s La Cautiva in 1837 inaugurated a movement towards the Americanization of literature in Argentina. Cf. 24, 13.
[473] Podría presentársele, He might be presented.
[474] las obras de Echeverría. His most important works are Elvira o la novia del Plata, Los Consuelos, Lara o la Partida, Las Rimas (which contain among other shorter poems La Cautiva), El Dogma Socialista, and Cantos a Mayo.
[475] Cuando se trata de evitar que los hombres de letras se puerilicen, When it is a question of keeping men of letters from becoming childish.
[476] desdeñoso como Horacio. The Latin poet Horace has expressed his distaste for the rabble in his often-quoted verse: Odi profanum vulgus, “I hate the ignorant rabble.”
[477] el bienvenido, i.e., el escritor bienvenido, the favorite writer.
[478] el malogrado argentino. Besides his voyage to Europe in 1825, Echeverría had to exile himself from his country twice owing to the persecution of the Dictator Rosas.
[479] que se refieren al bien de la sociedad, which deal with the welfare of society.