Rubén Darío
Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (January 18, 1867 – February 6, 1916) was a Nicaraguan journalist, diplomat, and poet who wrote under the pseudonym of Rubén Darío and is also known as The Father of Modernism.
Félix Rubén García Sarmiento | |
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| Born | January 18, 1867 Ciudad Darío, Nicaragua |
| Died | February 6, 1916 León, Nicaragua |
| Pen name | Rubén Darío |
| Occupation | Poet, Journalist |
| Nationality | Nicaraguan |
| Literary movement | Modernismo |
Quotations
- "My pick is working deep in the soil of this unknown America, turning out gold and opals and precious stones, an altar, a broken statue. And the Muse divines the meaning of the hieroglyphics. The strange life of a vanished people emerges from the mist of time." — Rubén Darío
- "Si la patria es pequeña, uno grande la sueña."
- "If the homeland is small, one dreams it large."
Further reading
English:
- Poet-errant: a biography of Rubén Darío / Charles Dunton Watland., 1965
- Ruben Dario centennial studies / Miguel Gonzalez-Gerth., 1970
- Critical approaches to Rubén Darío / Keith Ellis., 1974
- Rubén Darío and the romantic search for unity / Cathy Login Jrade., 1983
- Beyond the glitter: the language of gems in modernista writers / Rosemary C LoDato., 1999
- An art alienated from itself: studies in Spanish American modernism / Priscilla Pearsall., 1984
- Modernism, Rubén Darío, and the poetics of despair / Alberto Acereda., 2004
- Darío, Borges, Neruda and the ancient quarrel between poets and philosophers / Jason Wilson., 2000
- The meaning and function of music in Ruben Dario a comparative approach / Raymond Skyrme., 1969
Spanish:
- Miradas críticas sobre Rubén Darío / Nicasio Urbina., 2005
- La poesía de Rubén Darío : ensayo sobre el tema y los temas del poeta / Pedro Salinas., 2005
- Luis Cernuda y Rubén Darío : modernismo e ironía / James Valender., 2004
- Rubén Darío / Julio Ortega., 2003
- Rubén Darío visto por Juan de Dios Vanegas / Juan de Dios Vanegas., 2003
- Rubén Darío, puente hacia el siglo XXI y otros escritos / Carlos Tünnermann Bernheim., 2003
- Rubén Darío y su vigencia en el siglo XXI / Jorge Eduardo Arellano., 2003
- Rubén Darío / Blas Matamoro., 2002
- Paralelismo entre Rubén Darío y Salomón de la Selva / Nicolás Navas., 2002
- Bases para una interpretación de Rubén Darío / Mario Vargas Llosa., 2001
- La angustia existencial en la poesía de Rubén Darío / Roque Ochoa Hidalgo., 2001
- Rubén Darío, addenda / José María Martínez Domingo., 2000
- Aproximación a Rubén Darío / Teodosio Muñoz Molina., 2000
Primary Texts:
Rubén Darío Media
The catedral-basílica de la Asunción, in León, Nicaragua, where the poet spent his infancy. His remains are buried in this church.
Juan Valera, novelist and literary critic, whose letters, addressed to Ruben Darío in the periodical El Imparcial, decisively consecrated Rubén Darío.
Bartolomé Mitre, to whom Darío dedicated his ode: Oda a Mitre.
Darío wrote a poem directed to the President of the United States at the time, Theodore Roosevelt
Porfirio Díaz, Mexican dictator who refused to receive the writer.
Paul Verlaine, a decisive influence in Darío's poetry.
The Monumento a la Raza in Seville features a fragment of a poem written by Darío
References
- Orringer, Nelson R. (2002) "Introduction to Hispanic Modernisms", Bulletin of Spanish Studies LXXIX: 133-148.
- Ramos, Julio (2001) Divergent Modernities: Culture and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Latin America trans. John D. Blanco, Duke University Press, Durham, NC, ISBN 0-8223-1981-0
- Mapes, Edwin K. (1925) L'influence française dans l'oeuvre of Rubén Darío Paris, republished in 1966 by Comisión Nacional para la Celebración del Centenario del Nacimiento de Rubén Darío, Managua, Nicaragua OCLC 54179225
- Rivera-Rodas, Oscar (1989) "El discurso modernista y la dialéctica del erotismo y la castidad" Revista Iberoamericana 146-147: 45-62
- Rivera-Rodas, Oscar (2000) "'La crisis referencial' y la modernidad hispanoamericana" Hispania 83(4): 779-90
- Schulman, Iván A. (1969) "Reflexiones en torno a la definición del modernismo" In Schulman, Iván A. and Gonzalez, Manuel Pedro (1969) Martí, Darío y el modernismo Editorial Gredos, Madrid, OCLC 304168
- Ward, Thomas (1989) "El pensamiento religioso de Rubén Darío: Un estudio de Prosas profanas y Cantos de vida y esperanza" Revista Iberoamericana 55: 363-375.
- Ward, Thomas (2002) "Los posibles caminos de Nietzsche en el modernismo" Archived 2007-03-06 at the Wayback Machine Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica 50(2): 489-515.