The termination of that relationship so deeply disturbed Agustini that she became ill. For this reason the family moved temporarily from Montevideo to the nearby village of Sayago.
Poetry developed from a distraction into a passion; although well-read, Agustini never had a library. In any case, she soon began reading the Romantic, Parnassian, and Symbolist French poets such as Charles Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine. Although she first considered poetry a mere adornment of her social life, it soon became an obsession, and she dedicated herself to reading contemporary authors such as the well-known Spanish American Modernistas. She read the Nicaraguan Rubén Darío, the Uruguayan Julio Herrera y Reissig, and the Argentinean Leopoldo Lugones. In 1907 she published El libro blanco (The White Book). Orsini M. Bertani, an important editor for the young poets of Montevideo, edited the book. Using the pseudonym "Joujou" (a French word for toy), she also wrote about women intellectuals and artists of her time. With the publication of this book, Agustini received instant recognition both from Spanish American authors such as Carlos Vaz Ferreira and others from Spain such as Juan Ramón Jiménez. Agustini wrote her first poems when Modernismo had already been introduced both in Spain and in Spanish America.
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