Darío Herrera (1870-1914) was a

Panama Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and ...

nian Modernismo

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...

and

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. He placed great importance on the example given by contemporary French writing. His most important work is ''Horas lejanas y otros cuentos'', a collection of short stories (published Buenos Aires 1903)

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* * Modernismo Modernist poets Panamanian poets Panamanian male writers Male poets 1870 births 1914 deaths {{Panama-poet-stub