Rubén Darío: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Félix Rubén García Sarmiento
Born	January 18, 1867 • Nicaragua
Died	February 6, 1916 (aged 49) • León • Nicaragua
Notable Works	“Azul” • “Cantos de vida y esperanza” • “Prosas Profanas and Other Poems”
Movement / Style	Modernismo

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monument to Rubén Darío, Managua, Nicaragua

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Estanislao del Campo

Argentine poet and journalist

Alegría, Claribel

Claribel Alegría

Nicaraguan Salvadoran author

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Elizabeth Anne Chase Akers Allen

American journalist and poet

Portrait of Cecilia Meireles in orange ink on a 100 Cruzeiros 1989 Brazilian banknote, surrounded by geometric and floral patterns.

Cecília Meireles

Brazilian poet

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Brazilian poet and journalist

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Cassiano Ricardo

Brazilian poet, critic, and journalist

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Leopoldo Lugones

Argentine poet

Nervo, Amado

Amado Nervo

Mexican author

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Guillermo Valencia

Colombian author and statesman

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Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera

Mexican writer

Agustini, Delmira

Delmira Agustini

Uruguayan writer

Ernesto Cardenal

Ernesto Cardenal

Nicaraguan poet and priest

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Augusto de Campos

Brazilian poet and critic

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Afrânio Coutinho

Brazilian writer and literary critic

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Howard K. Smith

American journalist and broadcaster

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Shamsur Rahman

Bengali poet, journalist, and human rights advocate

Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.

Samuel Johnson

English author

James Joyce wearing a dark suit, light tie, round glasses, and a hat, looking to the side outdoors in Zurich, Switzerland.

James Joyce

Irish author

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish author and clergyman

Daniel Defoe, engraving by M. Van der Gucht, after a portrait by J. Taverner, first half of the 18th century.

Daniel Defoe

English author

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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