Manuel Carpio

Mexican poet

Manuel Elogio Carpio Hernández (March 1, 1791 – February 11, 1860) 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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