León Felipe

León Felipe Camino Galicia (11 April 1884 – 17 September 1968) was an anti-fascist Spanish poet.

As a result, he was charged with fraud, due to the bankruptcy caused by dereliction of his business responsibilities, and spent two years in jail.

He is one of Spain's best twentieth-century poets, and scholars have included him alongside Federico García Lorca, Jorge Guillén, Perdo Salinas, and Vicente Aleixandre among the members of Generation of 1927.

His use of reiteration and repetition, the prominence of Biblical motifs, and the Hebrew flavour to (Antología rota, 1947) inspired comparisons with the work of Walt Whitman.

Seven of Leon Felipe's poems were found in a notebook that Che Guevara was carrying when he was captured by the Bolivian Army and the CIA in 1965.