Rubén Darío
Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (18 January 1867 – 6 February 1916), known as Rubén Darío (US: /dɑːˈriːoʊ/ dah-REE-oh,[1][2] Spanish: [ruˈβen daˈɾi.o]), was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-language literary movement known as modernismo (modernism) that flourished at the end of the 19th century. Darío had a great and lasting influence on 20th-century Spanish-language literature and journalism.
This article is about the Nicaraguan poet. For other similarly named people, and for places named after him, see Rubén Darío (disambiguation).
Rubén Darío
Félix Rubén García Sarmiento
18 January 1867
Metapa, today known as Ciudad Darío, Matagalpa, Nicaragua
6 February 1916 (aged 49)
León, Nicaragua
- Poet
- journalist
- diplomat
- writer
Resident Minister of Foreign Affairs in Spain, Consul of Colombia in Buenos Aires, Consul of Nicaragua in Paris, France,
Consul of Paraguay in Paris, FranceAzul, Prosas Profanas y otros poemas, Cantos de vida y esperanza, Canto a la Argentina y otros poemas
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Rafaela Contreras(m. 1890; died 1893)
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Rosario Murillo(m. 1893, ?)
- Francisca Sánchez del Pozo
Poetry[edit]
Range[edit]
Darío wrote in thirty seven different metrical lines and 136 different stanza forms.[16]
English:
Spanish:
