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A Famous Mexican

A Famous Mexican image
Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
August
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Of the few Mexican poets who have become known to the outside world, Guillermo Prieto, who dicd recently in the city of Mexico, stands in the front rank. His poetry, which he used to compose at his leisure and only for the love of it, resembles somewhat the lighter verse of Byron and Moore, and shows unmistakable signs of a dreamy, sanguine disposition. He was a soldier a!so and a statesman of no small measure, and was one of the few survivors of the signers of Mexico's Declaration of Independence. He carne of zo cld Andalusian family, but was always an ardeut advocate of home rule and democraoy.

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Ann Arbor Register