Selva Lirica
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Selva lirica is an anthology published in 1917 by the Chilean Julio Molina Nuñez.[1]
Julio Molina Nuñez (1884-?) was a Chilean poet and critic; known for his controversial anthology “Selva Lirica” (published in 1917) in which the poetry of numerous Chilean authors was carefully analyzed, discussed and criticized. This anthology includes the first recorded critique of Gabriela Mistral, who twenty-eight years later won the Nobel Prize of Literature (1945). Julio Molina was the first person to predict her success as a poet
"...we are sure that soon there will be a revelation and a beautiful hope for all the spanish words... and in the spanish literature, we have yet to see poetry of equal caliber to what we have seen..."[2]