page_title: Rubén Darío
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Rubén Darío / Death
caption_attribution_description: Español: Félix Rubén García Sarmiento, conocido como Rubén Darío (Metapa, hoy Ciudad Darío, Matagalpa, 18 de enero de 1867 - León, 6 de febrero de 1916), fue un poeta nicaragüense, máximo representante del Modernismo literario en lengua española. Es posiblemente el poeta que ha tenido una mayor y más duradera influencia en la poesía del siglo XX en el ámbito hispánico. Es llamado príncipe de las letras castellanas.
context_page_description: Félix Rubén García Sarmiento, known as Rubén Darío, was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement known as modernismo that flourished at the end of the 19th century. Darío has had a great and lasting influence on 20th-century Spanish literature and journalism. He has been praised as the "Prince of Castilian Letters" and undisputed father of the modernismo literary movement.
context_section_description: Darío died on February 6, 1916, aged 49, in León. The funeral lasted several days, and he was interred in the city's cathedral on February 13, 1973, at the base of the statue of Saint Paul near the chancel under a lion made of marble by the sculptor Jorge Navas Cordonero.
caption: Darío in 1915
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