Rubén Darío

Felix Ruben Garcia Sarmiento (January 18, 1867 - February 6, 1916) was a Nicaraguan journalist, diplomat, and poet who wrote under the pseudonym of Ruben Dario and is also known as The Father of Modernism.
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." -- Ruben Dario
"Si la patria es pequena, uno grande la suena."
"If the homeland is small, one dreams it large."
Further reading
English:
Poet-errant: a biography of Ruben Dario / Charles Dunton Watland., 1965
Ruben Dario centennial studies / Miguel Gonzalez-Gerth., 1970
Critical approaches to Ruben Dario / Keith Ellis., 1974
Ruben Dario 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, Ruben Dario, and the poetics of despair / Alberto Acereda., 2004
Dario, 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 criticas sobre Ruben Dario / Nicasio Urbina., 2005
La poesia de Ruben Dario : ensayo sobre el tema y los temas del poeta / Pedro Salinas., 2005
Luis Cernuda y Ruben Dario : modernismo e ironia / James Valender., 2004
Ruben Dario / Julio Ortega., 2003
Ruben Dario visto por Juan de Dios Vanegas / Juan de Dios Vanegas., 2003
Ruben Dario, puente hacia el siglo XXI y otros escritos / Carlos Tunnermann Bernheim., 2003
Ruben Dario y su vigencia en el siglo XXI / Jorge Eduardo Arellano., 2003
Ruben Dario / Blas Matamoro., 2002
Paralelismo entre Ruben Dario y Salomon de la Selva / Nicolas Navas., 2002
Bases para una interpretacion de Ruben Dario / Mario Vargas Llosa., 2001
La angustia existencial en la poesia de Ruben Dario / Roque Ochoa Hidalgo., 2001
Ruben Dario, addenda / Jose Maria Martinez Domingo., 2000
Aproximacion a Ruben Dario / Teodosio Munoz Molina., 2000
Primary Texts:
Ruben Dario's Emelina: novella
Ruben Dario's Sus Mejores Poemas
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,
Mapes, Edwin K. (1925) L'influence francaise dans l'oeuvre of Ruben Dario Paris, republished in 1966 by Comision Nacional para la Celebracion del Centenario del Nacimiento de Ruben Dario, Managua, Nicaragua OCLC 54179225
Rivera-Rodas, Oscar (1989) "El discurso modernista y la dialectica 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, Ivan A. (1969) "Reflexiones en torno a la definicion del modernismo" In Schulman, Ivan A. and Gonzalez, Manuel Pedro (1969) Marti, Dario y el modernismo Editorial Gredos, Madrid, OCLC 304168
Ward, Thomas (1989) "El pensamiento religioso de Ruben Dario: 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" Nueva Revista de Filologia Hispanica 50(2): 489-515.
1867 births
1916 deaths
Nicaraguan writers
Pen names