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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Francisco Orgaz (1815–1873)

Orgaz, Francisco (or-gäth’). A Cuban poet; born in Havana in 1815; died in Madrid in 1873. He published a volume of poems, ‘Preludes for the Harp’ (1841), which placed him among the best lyric poets of Spanish America. A collection of poems, ‘Poems of the Tropics’ (1850), preserved the uses and customs of the Cuban aborigines. He also wrote several dramas.