Ruben Dario 
Cantos de vida y esperanza 

Ruven Dario, a Nicaraguan poet, is the most influential poet in the modernization of Latin American literature. The literary creation of modernism represented by him is also a watershed in the development history of Spanish poetry and an indispensable outstanding figure in the study of the overall achievements of Latin American literature. Dario’s most outstanding collection of poems, Cantos de vida y esperanza, published in 1905, marks his transition from escapism to a new world.