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Luis Cernuda
Luis Cernuda Bidón (1902–1963) was a Spanish poet of the Generation of '27 whose complete poetry is gathered under the title La realidad y el deseo.
Luis de Góngora
Luis de Góngora (1561–1627) was a Spanish Baroque poet from Córdoba, the leading exponent of culteranismo, known for the Fábula de Polifemo and the unfinished Soledades.
Luis Rosales
Luis Rosales, full name Luis Rosales Camacho, was a Spanish poet and critic of the Generation of '36 who won the 1982 Premio Cervantes, Spain's highest literary award.
Mário de Sá-Carneiro
Mário de Sá-Carneiro (1890–1916) was a Portuguese poet, novelist, and short-story writer who died by suicide in Paris at 26, a principal figure of the magazine Orpheu, which introduced modernism to Portugal.
Novísimos
The novísimos, also called the Generación del 68 or Generación del 70, are Spanish poets named from José María Castellet's 1970 anthology of nine poets.
Orpheu generation
The Orpheu generation (Geração de Orpheu) was the group of young Portuguese poets, led by Fernando Pessoa and Mário de Sá-Carneiro, whose 1915 magazine Orpheu began Portuguese modernism.
Pedro Salinas
Born in Madrid and dying in Boston, Pedro Salinas (1891–1951) was a Spanish poet, professor, and literary critic of the Generation of '27, noted for his love poetry.
Pere Gimferrer
Pere Gimferrer is a Spanish poet, essayist, and critic born in Barcelona in 1945 who writes in Spanish and Catalan; his breakthrough collection was Arde el mar (1966).
Ruy Cinatti
Ruy Cinatti (1915–1986) was a Portuguese poet, agronomist, and ethnographer who spent much of his career in Portuguese Timor and won major Portuguese poetry prizes including the Prémio Camilo Pessanha.
Salvador Espriu
Salvador Espriu, full name Salvador Espriu i Castelló (1913–1985), was a Catalan poet, playwright, and novelist, a central figure of twentieth-century Catalan literature known for Cementiri de Sinera and La pell de brau.
Salvador Rueda
Salvador Rueda (Salvador Rueda Santos, 1857–1933) was a Spanish poet from a peasant family in Málaga who renewed Spanish verse meters and joined the Real Academia Española in 1926.
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1919–2004) was a leading Portuguese poet of the second half of the twentieth century, author of fifteen poetry books and winner of the 1999 Camões Prize.
Teixeira de Pascoaes
Teixeira de Pascoaes, pen name of Joaquim Pereira Teixeira de Vasconcelos (1877–1952), was a Portuguese poet from Amarante who led Saudosismo, the first literary school of twentieth-century Portuguese poetry, built on his doctrine of saudade.
Ventura López
Ventura López, in full Ventura Fernández López (1866–1944), was a Spanish priest, journalist, archaeologist, and cervantist who settled in Toledo, where his eccentricity made him famous as el Cura Loco.
Vicente Aleixandre
Vicente Aleixandre (1898–1984) was a Spanish poet of the Generation of 1927 who wrote in Madrid and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1977, the last Spanish poet to receive it.