José Ángel Valente

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Born	April 25, 1929 • Ourense • Spain
Died	July 18, 2000 (aged 71) • Geneva • Switzerland

Quevedo y Villegas, detail of an oil painting by an unknown Spanish artist; in Apsley House, London

Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Villegas

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Rosario de Acuña

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Dámaso Alonso

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Maggie Nelson

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Syrian-born Lebanese poet and literary critic

Mary Oliver

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Francisco Manuel de Melo

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Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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Federico García Lorca

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

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