Julián del Casal

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Julián del Casal de la Lastra (1863-1893) was a Cuban poet.

He took up many of the French poetic styles of the day, and later influenced Rubén Darío and Modernismo. Like Manuel González Prada and José Martí, Casal was an important forebearer of modernistic expression throughout Latin America. Casal seemed almost obsessed when comparing natural vs "made by man" perspectives.

Author of Hojas al viento (1890), Nieve (1892), and a third book of collected poetry, published posthumously, Bustos y rimas (1893).