Rubén Darío, a Nicaraguan poet and diplomat…

Rubén Darío, a Nicaraguan poet and diplomat writing for the Argentine newspaper La Nación in 1896, epitomizes the Latin American Modernisimo movement in poetry.

His publications, in Buenos Aires, of the exquisitely expressive Los raros (“The Rare Ones”), a collection of articles about the writers that most interest him, and Prosas profanas y otros poemas (Profane Hymns and other poems) in 1896 win over important critics to an appreciation of Spanish literary modernism.

 However popular it will become, though, his work is not initially well received.