A Nicaraguan poet born in 1867, Ruben Darío is remembered as the father of modernismo and a key figure in the revival of Spanish-language literature in the 19up>th century.
Darío led a cosmopolitan lifestyle, traveling extensively throughout the Americas and Europeas a diplomat and journalist.
His best-known works include Azul, Prosas profanas, Cantos de vida y esperanza and Canto errante, which together encompass the various strains of modernismo in its different stages.
Darío died in 1916.
