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Also Known As El Divino
Born 1534? • Sevilla • Spain
Died 1597 • Sevilla • Spain
Notable Works “Algunas obras de Fernando de Herrera” • “Anotaciones a las obras de Garcilaso de la Vega”
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Francisco Manuel de Melo
Portuguese author
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Pedro Salinas y Serrano
Spanish writer
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Luis Cernuda
Spanish poet and critic
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Dámaso Alonso
Spanish writer
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Juan Pablo Forner
Spanish writer
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Iñigo López de Mendoza, marquis de Santillana
Spanish poet
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Carlos Bousoño
Spanish poet and critic
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Alberto Lista
Spanish writer
Antonio, Nicolás
Nicolás Antonio
Spanish historian
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
Algernon Charles Swinburne, watercolour by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1862; in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
English poet
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Charles Maurras
French writer and political theorist
Simms, detail of an engraving published by Johnson, Fry and Company, 1861
William Gilmore Simms
American novelist
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Wang Guowei
Chinese scholar
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Constance Lindsay Skinner
American writer and historian
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A.L. Rowse
British historian and writer
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Daniel Hoffman
American poet
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Donald Hall
American poet, essayist and critic
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John Wain
British critic and writer
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Eavan Boland
Irish poet and literary critic

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