Died 1916-02-06.
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Félix Rubén García Sarmiento, known as Rubén Darío, 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.
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culture · Nicaraguan poet, journalist and writer (1867–1916) · poet · journalist · diplomat · reporter · writer · autobiographer · also Rubén Darío porno, Rubén Darío, Félix Rubén García Sarmiento, Ruben Dario, Felix Ruben Garcia Sarniento, Dariosi
Born 18 January 1867 · Died 6 February 1916 · Q173767
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Died 1916-02-06.
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Invited by Joan Sureda, he traveled to Mallorca and found quarters at the Carthusian monastery of Valldemosa, where many decades into the past figures such as Chopin and George Sand had resided
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Accepted an offer from the Uruguayan businessmen Rubén and Alfredo Guido to direct the magazines Mundial and Elegancias
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Darío traveled to Mexico as a member of a Nicaraguan delegation to commemorate a century of Mexican independence
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Participated as secretary of the Nicaraguan delegation to the Third Pan-American Conference held in Rio de Janeiro where he was inspired to write his poem "Salutación del águila", which offers a view of the United Sta
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Went to Spain as a member of a committee named by the Nicaraguan government whose task was to resolve a territorial dispute with Honduras
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Like "Salutación del optimista" and "A Roosevelt", in which he extols Hispanic traits in the face of the threat of United States imperialism
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Published Cantos de vida y esperanza, which announces a more intimate and reflexive trend in his works, without renouncing to the themes that have become linked to the identity of Modernism
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“Cantos de vida y esperanza (1901), "Lo fatal" ("Fatalism")”
Published the second edition of Prosas profanas
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Rubén Darío, who was still legally married to Rosario Murillo, met Francisca Sánchez del Pozo in the Casa de Campo of Madrid
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In Buenos Aires, Darío published two of his most crucial books: Los raros, a collection of articles about the writers that most interested him, and second, Prosas profanas y otros poemas, the book that established the mo
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Left his family in Costa Rica, and traveled to Guatemala and Nicaragua, in search for better economic prospects
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This one was augmented with several new texts, amongst which were sonnets in Alexandrine verses
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And disembarked in Valparaíso on 23 June 1886
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But published until 1888, under the title Primeras notas), Rimas (1887) and Abrojos (1887)
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Is conserved, and he published for the first time in a newspaper when he was thirteen years old
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The family went through rough economic times and they considered sending young Rubén as a tailor's apprentice
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Born 1867-01-18.
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The government of Nicaragua struck a 50 cordoba gold medal and issued a set of postage stamps
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