Hello. My native language is Portuguese, and, although we have

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Hello.

My native language is Portuguese, and, although we have some good poets that write in our language, I like poetry in English the best, especially because of Shakespeare. I like poetry that is highly metaphorical and filled with imagery: that is what I look for when I am reading poetry.

I was thinking now in reading more of poetry written in Spanish. I know some Octavio Paz, some Góngora, Quevedo, Lope de Vega, César Vallejo, Lorca and some of the Borges poems, but up until now the best poet I have encountered in Spanish is Pablo Neruda: he is by far the most fertile in the invention of new and bold metaphors.

I wanted some recommendation of poems and poets in Spanish; it is a great thing to be able to read, with a little effort, the poems in the original, since Portuguese and Spanish, at least in the written form, are so similar.

I would also deeply appreciate verse drama and other plays that are famous in Spanish.