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Born	July 22, 1895 • Medellín • Colombia
Died	July 11, 1976 (aged 80) • Bogotá • Colombia
Notable Works	“Libro de los signos” • “Obras completas” • “Tergiversaciones” • “Variaciones alrededor de la nada”

Álvaro Mutis

Colombian author

Guillermo Valencia

Colombian author and statesman

José Eustasio Rivera

Colombian poet

Jorge Isaacs

Colombian writer

José Asunción Silva

Colombian poet

Luis Carlos López

Colombian 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

Rubén Darío

Nicaraguan writer

Octavio Paz

Mexican writer and diplomat

César Vallejo

Peruvian poet

José Martí

Cuban patriot

José Lezama Lima

Cuban author

Chespirito

Mexican actor and writer

Ernesto Cardenal

Nicaraguan poet and priest

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Argentine author

Severo Sarduy

Cuban writer

Augusto Roa Bastos

Paraguayan writer

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

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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:

Poetry: First Lines

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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