Juan Ruiz

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Spanish poet and novelist Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547 - 1616), the author of 'Don Quixote de la Mancha', ca. 1590. An artist's impression since there are no contemporary likenesses of Cervantes.

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Born	c.1283 • Spain
Died	c.1350
Notable Works	“The Book of Good Love”

Concha Espina de Serna

Spanish author

Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish writer

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Spanish author

Lope de Vega

Spanish author

Federico García Lorca

Spanish writer

Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga

Spanish soldier and poet

Juan Ramón Jiménez

Spanish poet

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

Luis de Góngora

Spanish poet

St. John of the Cross

Spanish mystic

Luis de León

Spanish poet

Quevedo y Villegas, detail of an oil painting by an unknown Spanish artist; in Apsley House, London

Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Villegas

Spanish writer

José Ángel Valente

Spanish poet and essayist

Rosa Chacel

Spanish writer

Ramón Pérez de Ayala

Spanish author

Garcilaso de la Vega

Spanish poet

Rafael Alberti

Spanish poet and playwright

Juan del Encina

Spanish author and composer

Rosario de Acuña

Spanish writer

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Spanish author

Fernando de Herrera

Spanish poet

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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:

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

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