Agustín Durán: Quick Facts

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Born	October 14, 1793 • Madrid • Spain
Died	December 1, 1862 (aged 69)
Notable Works	“Sobre el influjo que ha tenido la crítica moderna en la decadencia del teatro antiguo español”
Subjects Of Study	Spanish literature • dramatic literature

Zorrilla y Moral, José

José Zorrilla y Moral

Spanish writer

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Ángel de Saavedra, duke de Rivas

Spanish author

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José de Espronceda y Delgado

Spanish poet

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Antonio García Gutiérrez

Spanish writer

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Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa

Spanish writer and statesman

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

French writer

Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

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Théophile Gautier

French author

Atterbom

Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom

Swedish author

Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, detail of a portrait by Federico de Madrazo, 1857.

Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda

Cuban Spanish playwright

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Bartolomé de Torres Naharro

Spanish dramatist

Hartzenbusch, Juan Eugenio

Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch

Spanish writer

Aribau, oil painting by J.E. Rull; in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Jorge de Barcelona

Buenaventura Carles Aribau

Spanish author

Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.

Samuel Johnson

English author

Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa smiling, shown in a close-up portrait with gray hair, wearing a suit and tie.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Peruvian author

Wole Soyinka, 2015

Wole Soyinka

Nigerian author

Carol Ann Duffy

Carol Ann Duffy

British poet

Quasimodo

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

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Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

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Constance Lindsay Skinner

American writer and historian