Darien is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...

in Dent County, in the U.S. state of

Missouri Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee ...

History

A post office called Darien was established in 1888, and remained in operation until 1954. The community was named after a place mentioned in the last line of the sonnet "

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" is a sonnet written by the English Romantic poet John Keats (1795–1821) in October 1816. It tells of the author's astonishment while he was reading the works of the ancient Greek poet Homer, who was fre ...

References

Unincorporated communities in Dent County, Missouri Unincorporated communities in Missouri {{DentCountyMO-geo-stub