The great Nicaraguan poet Rubén Dario, was born in the year 1867 in Metapa, Nicaragua. Their parents were Manuel Garcia and Rosa Sarmiento Alemán. He died In February 6 of 1916 after a surgery leaving in his testament to his son Rubén Dario Sanchez like his only heir

During the 49 years of his life Rubén Dario became the center of gravitation of the Spanish American modernism. In 1879 to the twelve years of age he wrote his first poem, the sonnet The Faith .In 1880 his first verses appear in the newspaper " The thermometer."


He wrote: Nature, To the Sea, To Victor Hugo, Classes, A Tear, Disappointment, TO..., The Poet and TO You, signing with the anagrams of Bruno Erdia and Bernardo I.U.


In 1881 he writes articles for the political newspaper "The Truth". In 1882 he read the poem "The Book" in the Palace of the Ejecutive, and the Nicaraguan government offered him to pay the expenses of his studies in the School of Granada but he didn't accept.


In 1882 he left to " El Aalvador" where he dictated grammar classes and he returned to Nicaragua in 1883. In that same year he wrote "Allegories".

Among 1884 to 1888 Rubén Dario worked in the private secretary of the presidency; in the National Library. He collaborated in the Newspaper of Nicaragua, "The Railroad" and in "The Future of Nicaragua". He wrote poems and several stories. Together with Pedro Ortiz and Eugenio Lopez directed the new publication of Managua: The Impartial, he traveled to Chile. he published in the Mercury The eruption of Momotombo. He wrote with Eduardo Poirier the novel Emelina and worked in the writing of the Time.


In 1888 heI published "Blue" in Valparaiso, Chile becoming the but well-known, mock, dear and criticized of the writers of Castilian speech of ends of the XIX century and beginnings of the present. His trips to Chile, Spain, Argentina and Cuba gave him a cosmopolitan flavor and an energetic individualism, incorporating in their poems gods and goddesses of the Greek world - Roman, oriental images, tones of the medieval Italy, of France and of the indigenous America. His style was at the same time rich and sober, adorned and simple reflecting the times of its upset literary life.