Julián del Casal: Quick Facts

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Born	November 7, 1863 • Havana • Cuba
Died	October 21, 1893 (aged 29) • Havana • Cuba
Notable Works	“Hojas al viento”

José Martí

Cuban patriot

José Lezama Lima

Cuban author

Severo Sarduy

Cuban writer

Heberto Padilla

Cuban poet

Miguel Barnet

Cuban writer

Nicolás Guillén

Cuban poet

Roberto Fernández Retamar

Cuban author and critic

Virgilio Piñera

Cuban writer

Cintio Vitier

Cuban writer

Alejo Carpentier

Cuban author

Antonio Benítez Rojo

Cuban writer

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Cuban author

Lydia Cabrera

Cuban author and ethnologist

Daína Chaviano

Cuban author

Reinaldo Arenas

Cuban writer

Roberto Valero

Cuban poet

Augusto de Campos

Brazilian poet and critic

Pablo Neruda

Chilean poet

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Mexican poet and scholar

Jorge Luis Borges

Argentine author

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:

Poetry: First Lines

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

A Study of Poetry

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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