Biography of Ruben Dario

(1867/01/18 - 1916/02/06)

Rubén Darío
Félix Rubén García Sarmiento
Nicaraguan diplomat, journalist, and poet

He was born on January 18, 1867 in Matagalpa, Nicaragua , San Pedro de Metapa, now Ciudad Darío.
First son of Manuel García and Rosa Sarmiento. He was raised by his grandmother after the separation of his parents. At age 14 he moved to Managua where he worked as a Secretary at the national library. By then it is already recognized by calling him the "poeta-nino". Staying at the home of Dr. Modesto Barrios, who accompanied him to parties and literary gatherings.
In 1882, when there are fifteen, he falls for Rosario Emelina Murillo, which intended to marry. Friends and family to avoid marriage shipped him to El Salvador. A few months later he returned and resumed their engagement with Rosario, who in his blue work called "garza morena". However, to learn something of the Rosary during your absence, you decide to leave the country. With just 19 years of age, in the year 1886, travels to Santiago de Chile, where he published his first big title: Blue (1888), book that caught the attention of critics.
Of returned to Managua married Rafaela Contreras Rod on June 21, 1890; fifteen months later their first son was born, and his wife died in 1893, during a surgical operation. Ruben Dario is widowed and drunk and at gunpoint, on March 8, 1893, he married forcibly Rosario Emelina, whose two military brothers tended him a trap. Andrés Murillo accused him of missing the honor of his sister, Dario denies it but everything was prepared: cure and witnesses. The couple traveled to Argentina, although she came back pregnant from Panama shortly afterwards. As the poet resides in Buenos Aires by exerting the Consulate of Colombia, was born his son Darío Darío, who died of tetanus in a month and a half by cutting his grandmother Mercedes the umbilical cord with scissors without disinfection.
In 1892 he traveled to Spain as a representative of the Nicaraguan Government to attend events celebrating the fourth centenary of the discovery of America. After travelling by different countries, she resided in Buenos Aires, where he worked for the newspaper La Nación. In 1898 he returned to Spain as a correspondent and alternates residence between Paris and Madrid, where in 1900, he met Francisca Sánchez, peasant woman that was married civilly and had four children, of which only one will survive, Rubén Darío Sánchez, "Guincho". With her lived until near the end of his days. Ruben took her to Paris where he presented to his friends. Francisca was illiterate when he met Dario (Amado Nervo, Manuel Machado and her spouse taught it to read). He traveled from one place to another without be able to present it in official acts as his wife, as it is to resolve the divorce with Rosario. In 1907 this was presented in Paris for their rights of wife; Darius tried to circumvent it without success. The poet traveled to their country to obtain a divorce, which failed.
Become poet's success in Europe and America, he was appointed diplomatic representative of Nicaragua in Madrid in 1907.
His first poems are a blend of traditionalism and romanticism; Thorns (1887) and singing epic to the glories of Chile (1888). This same year publishes blue (1888, revised in 1890), divided into four parts: 'Primaveral', 'Estival', 'Autumnal' and 'winter'. This book should be considered the creator of modernism; writers such as Ramón María del Valle-Inclán, Antonio Machado, Leopoldo Lugones and Julio Herrera y Reissig recognized him as the creator and founder of a new epoch in Spanish poetry.
In Paris comes into contact with the poets Parnassian and Symbolist abandoning provincialism for a poetry of the universality and count their daily lives but through hermetic symbols. In secular prose (1896 and 1901), Symbolist work, develops the theme of love again. He formally created a poetry elevated and refined with many decorative elements and musical resonances; Songs of life and hope (1905) is the best example of this. Wandering song (1907), is his book, conceptually, more universal.
In 1913, he falls into a deep mysticism and withdrew to the island of Mallorca. There begins to write a novel the Golden Island - which never came to the conclusion - which analyzes the disaster to which Europe is walking. He also composed song to Argentina and other poems (1914), a book dedicated to this country in the year of the celebration of its centenary in that wanted to follow the model of the singing myself Walt Whitman.
In 1915 he published the life of Ruben Dario, year in which he returned to a America. Sick in the capital of Guatemala, became rosary to accompany him to his country, where it is said that you cared for him from July 4, 1915, on February 6, 1916, date in which died in Managua.
Works
Poetry
Thorns 1887
Rhymes 1887
Blue... 1888
EPIC hymn to the glories of Chile 1887
First notes 1888
Secular prose and other poems 1896
Songs of life and hope. Swans and other poems 1905
Ode to Mitre 1906
The canto errante 1907
Poem of autumn and other poems, 1910
Singing to the Argentina and other poems 1914
Posthumous lira 1919
Prose
The rare 1906
Contemporary Spain 1901
Pilgrimages 1901
The caravan passes 1902
Solar land 1904
Views 1906
The trip to Nicaragua and Intermezzo tropical 1909
1911 lyrics
All the flight 1912
The life of Rubén Dario written by 1913
The island of gold 1915 (unfinished novel)
History of my books 1916
Prose dispersive 1919
THE FATAL
René Pérez
Happy tree which is just sensitive,
and more hard rock, because that no longer feels,
because there is no pain greater than the pain of being alive,
or more grief than the conscious life.
Be, and know nothing, and without some direction,
and the fear of having been and future terror
And the uncertain tomorrow fear died,
and suffer through life and by the shadow and
What we do not know and hardly suspect,
and the flesh that tempts with fresh bunches,
and the Tomb that awaits with your funeral bouquets,
and not knowing where we are going,
or where we come from!