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INTRODUCTION.
for the purpose of enabling the reader to compare more easily the periods in which they flourished. They are, it will be observed, twelve in number, and the list has been divided into two parts, as marking an evidently distinctive character of the poetry in the former and latter part of the epoch which they have rendered memorable.
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| I. | Jovellanos | Born 1744. | Died | 1811. | Age 67. |
| II. | Iriarte | Born 1750. | Died | 1791. | Age 41. |
| III. | Melendez Valdes | Born 1754. | Died | 1817. | Age 63. |
| IV. | Leandro Moratin | Born 1760. | Died | 1828. | Age 68. |
| V. | Arriaza | Born 1770. | Died | 1837. | Age 67. |
| VI. | Quintana | Born 1772. | Living | 1851. | Age 79. |
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| VII. | Martinez de la Rosa | Born 1789. | Living | 1851. | Age 62. |
| VIII. | The Duke de Rivas | Born 1791. | Living | 1851. | Age 60. |
| IX. | Breton de los Herreros | Born 1796. | Living | 1851. | Age 55. |
| X. | Heredia | Born 1803. | Died | 1839. | Age 35. |
| XI. | Espronceda | Born 1810. | Died | 1842. | Age 32. |
| XII. | Zorrilla | Born 1817. | Living | 1851. | Age 34. |
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