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Also Known As	Alberto Lista y Aragón
Born	October 15, 1775 • Spain
Died	October 5, 1848 (aged 72) • Sevilla • Spain
Notable Works	“Lecciones de literatura española” • “The Empire of Stupidity”
Movement / Style	Neoclassical art

Azorín

Spanish literary critic

Rafael Alberti

Spanish poet and playwright

Fernando de Herrera

Spanish poet

Pedro Salinas y Serrano

Spanish writer

Luis Cernuda

Spanish poet and critic

Dámaso Alonso

Spanish writer

Juan Pablo Forner

Spanish writer

Iñigo López de Mendoza, marquis de Santillana

Spanish poet

Carlos Bousoño

Spanish poet and critic

Aribau, oil painting by J.E. Rull; in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Jorge de Barcelona

Buenaventura Carles Aribau

Spanish author

Augusto de Campos

Brazilian poet and critic

Samuel Johnson

English author

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

French critic

José Lezama Lima

Cuban author

Severo Sarduy

Cuban writer

Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov

Russian author

Leigh Hunt

British author

John Jay Chapman

American writer

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Leopoldo Lugones

Argentine poet

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