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Silva a la agricultura de la zona tórrida
Andrés Bello · 1826
Original text in Spanish. In English: The Agriculture of the Torrid Zone.
A poem written in London, which sings of the crops of the tropics and sends the new nations of America back to their fields.
Poetry · about 2 000 words · about 9 min of reading
About this text
Andrés Bello († 1865): public-domain work. The text is that of la transcription établie par Erostrate sur le fac-similé d'Internet Archive (The Odes of Bello, Olmedo and Heredia, with an introduction by Elijah Clarence Hills, New York and London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1920). Erostrate has not changed a single word: only the layout and the division into pages are ours.
Note on the edition (in French): Texte de l'édition d'E. C. Hills (1920), qui renvoie au Repertorio Americano (Londres, 1826). Relu vers à vers sur l'image ; 373 vers.
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