León Felipe

León Felipe (born April 11, 1884, Tábara, Spain—died Sept. 18, 1968, Mexico City, Mex.) was a Spanish poet known chiefly as a poet of the Spanish Civil War. After performing across Spain with a traveling theatre company, Felipe published his first book, Versos y oraciones de caminante (1919; “Verses and Prayers of a Traveler”), in Madrid. He worked for an extended period of time in Mexico and the United States as a literature professor, a...