Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga: Quick Facts

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Born	August 7, 1533 • Madrid • Spain
Died	November 29, 1594 (aged 61) • Madrid • Spain
Notable Works	“The Araucaniad”

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Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, oil painting attributed to El Greco; in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

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Concha Espina de Serna

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Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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Lope de Vega

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Early 20th century black and white portrait of poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, seated and resting his face on his hand.

Federico García Lorca

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Juan Ramón Jiménez

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St. John of the Cross

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Góngora, oil painting by Velázquez; in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Luis de Góngora

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Luis de León

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Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Villegas

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Juan Ruiz

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José Ángel Valente

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Rosa Chacel

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Garcilaso de la Vega

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Rafael Alberti

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Juan del Encina

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Rosario de Acuña

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Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

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Fernando de Herrera

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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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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

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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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