Juan Pablo Forner: Quick Facts

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Born	February 17, 1756? • Mérida • Spain
Died	March 17, 1797 • Madrid • Spain
Notable Works	“El asno erudito” • “Exequias de la lengua castellana” • “Oración apologética por la España y su mérito literario” • “Sátira contra los abusos introducidos en la poesía castellana”
Subjects Of Study	Spanish literature • poetry

Spanish poet Quevedo y Villegas

Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Villegas

Spanish writer

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Fernando de Herrera

Spanish poet

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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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Iñigo López de Mendoza, marquis de Santillana

Spanish poet

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Carlos Bousoño

Spanish poet and critic

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Gómez Manrique

Spanish author

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Alberto Lista

Spanish writer

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish author and clergyman

Portrait of poet Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

English author

German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

German author

Poet John Dryden

John Dryden

British author

Samuel Butler, detail of an oil painting by Charles Gogin, 1896; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Samuel Butler

English author [1835-1902]

François Mauriac

François Mauriac

French author

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Francisco Manuel de Melo

Portuguese author

Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, portrait after an oil painting by I.E. Repin, 1879

Aleksey Konstantinovich, Count Tolstoy

Russian writer

Fischart, Johann

Johann Fischart

German satirist

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Alessandro Tassoni

Italian author

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José Agostinho de Macedo

Portuguese writer