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Mexican poet (1791-1860)

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Manuel Elogio Carpio Hernández was a Mexican poet, theologian, physician, and politician. Much of his poetry was religious or historical, with an inspiration for his poetry deriving from the Bible. He was a classicist who often used Romanticism.

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Manuel Elogio Carpio Hernández was a Mexican poet, theologian, physician, and politician. Much of his poetry was religious or historical, with an inspiration for his poetry deriving from the Bible. He was a classicist who often used Romanticism. He wrote the earliest known literary depiction of the ghost La Llorona in a poem in 1849 and has received praise for his work.

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Lived 1791 to 1860 · aged 68
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