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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry
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Famous Poets and Poetic Form
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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Spanish poet and novelist Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547 - 1616), the author of 'Don Quixote de la Mancha', ca. 1590. An artist's impression since there are no contemporary likenesses of Cervantes.
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Born December 16, 1902 • El Puerto de Santa María • Spain
Died October 28, 1999 (aged 96) • El Puerto de Santa María • Spain
Political Affiliation Communist Party of Spain
Awards And Honors Cervantes Prize (1983)
Movement / Style Generation of 1927

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Aribau, oil painting by J.E. Rull; in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Jorge de Barcelona
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Alberto Lista
Spanish writer
Federico García Lorca
Federico García Lorca
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Rosa Chacel
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Vicente Aleixandre
Spanish poet
Pedro Salinas y Serrano
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Luis Cernuda
Spanish poet and critic
Camilo José Cela
Camilo José Cela
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Gerardo Diego
Spanish poet and musicologist
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Juan Zorrilla de San Martín
Uruguayan poet
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Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes
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Calderón de la Barca, Pedro
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
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Lope de Vega
Lope de Vega
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Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, oil painting attributed to El Greco; in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga
Spanish soldier and poet
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Spanish poet
Góngora, oil painting by Velázquez; in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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St. John of the Cross
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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
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