José Ángel Valente: Quick Facts

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Born	April 25, 1929 • Ourense • Spain
Died	July 18, 2000 (aged 71) • Geneva • Switzerland

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Rosa Chacel

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Rosario de Acuña

Spanish writer

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Spanish author

Dámaso Alonso

Spanish writer

Anne Carson

Canadian poet

Maggie Nelson

American writer

Adonis

Syrian-born Lebanese poet and literary critic

Mary Oliver

American poet

Francisco Manuel de Melo

Portuguese author

Concha Espina de Serna

Spanish author

Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish writer

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Spanish author

Lope de Vega

Spanish author

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

Spanish writer

Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga

Spanish soldier and poet

Juan Ramón Jiménez

Spanish poet

St. John of the Cross

Spanish mystic

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

Luis de Góngora

Spanish poet

Francisco Ayala

Spanish author and sociologist

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

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