Ramón Pérez de Ayala: Quick Facts

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Born	August 9, 1880 • Oviedo • Spain
Died	August 5, 1962 (aged 81) • Madrid • Spain
Notable Works	“AMDG” • “Belarmino and Apolonio” • “Los trabajos de Urbano y Simona” • “Moons of Honey and Gall” • “Tinieblas en las cumbres” • “Troteras y danzaderas”

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Concha Espina de Serna

Spanish author

Engraving of Miguel de Cervantes, shown with a mustache and beard, wearing a ruffled collar and cloak, based on works by Gregorio Ferro and Fernando Selma.

Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish writer

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Ramón José Sender

Spanish novelist

Spanish poet Quevedo y Villegas

Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Villegas

Spanish writer

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Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo

Spanish writer and diplomat

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Rosa Chacel

Spanish writer

Baroja, Pío

Pío Baroja

Spanish writer

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Carmen Laforet

Spanish author

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Ángel de Saavedra, duke de Rivas

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José de Espronceda y Delgado

Spanish poet

Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza.

Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza

Spanish writer

Palacio Valdés, Armando

Armando Palacio Valdés

Spanish writer

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Pedro López de Ayala

Spanish poet and chronicler

Aldecoa, Ignacio

Ignacio Aldecoa

Spanish novelist

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Portrait of Jack Kerouac, American novelist and poet, looking over his shoulder in a collared shirt, circa 1965.

Jack Kerouac

American writer

Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser

American author

C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis

Irish-born author and scholar

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

American author

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

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

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

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