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Born May 17, 1889 • Monterrey • Mexico
Died December 27, 1959 (aged 70) • Mexico City • Mexico
Subjects Of Study Ancient Greek literature • Golden Age • literature

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Octavio Paz.
Octavio Paz
Mexican writer and diplomat
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Rosario Castellanos
Mexican writer
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Jaime Torres Bodet
Mexican writer and statesman
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Agustín Yáñez
Mexican writer and statesman
Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes
Mexican writer and diplomat
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José Emilio Pacheco
Mexican author
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
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Ezequiel Martínez Estrada
Argentine author
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Juan José Arreola
Mexican writer
Vasconcelos, José
José Vasconcelos
Mexican educator
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Ramón López Velarde
Mexican poet
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Augusto de Campos
Brazilian poet and critic
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study.
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
American author
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges
Argentine author
James Russell Lowell.
James Russell Lowell
American poet and critic
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Czesław Miłosz
Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat

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