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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poets laureate
poets
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Neruda, also a diplomat and politician, is considered one of the most important Latin American poets of the 20th century, having won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971.
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These were translations of 19th-century poems by international poets from the 1940s.
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