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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
Pablo Neruda
Born: July 12, 1904
Died: September 23, 1973 (aged 69)
Bio: Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet-diplomat and politician Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto. He derived his pen name from the Czech poet Jan Neruda. Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.
Known for:
- Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924)
- The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
- Cien Sonetos de Amor (1959)
- The essential Neruda
- Canto General (1950)
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