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Garcilaso de la Vega was a 16th-century Spanish soldier-poet who helped introduce Italian Renaissance meters, especially the sonnet, into Spanish poetry.
Lope de Vega was a Spanish Golden Age playwright and poet, famed for extraordinary output and for shaping the comedia nueva in the early 17th century.
Joachim du Bellay was a French Renaissance poet and Pléiade member, notable for La Défense et illustration de la langue française (1549).
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet whose 1850 Sonnets from the Portuguese became a major Victorian sequence of love poems.
Thomas Wyatt was a 16th-century English poet and courtier credited with helping introduce the Petrarchan sonnet into English verse.
Florbela Espanca was a Portuguese poet whose sonnets and posthumous 1931 book Charneca em Flor made her a major voice of early 20th-century Portuguese lyricism.
Claude McKay was a Jamaican-born writer of the Harlem Renaissance, known for the 1919 sonnet If We Must Die and novels about Black urban life.
