Selected Poems
Who is Miguel de Cervantes from Selected Poems and what is their importance?
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Miguel de Cervantes appears in the poems, The Maker, the Self and the Other and The Limit. This Spanish writer, who gained fame for his windmill-charging fictional creation, Don Quixote, appears a number of times in these poems. Cervantes served in the Spanish army, and Borges imagines him dreaming up Don Quixote while on duty. He admires Cervantes for being both a poet and a man of action. Borges even goes so far as to give Don Quixote a life as real as that of Cervantes, as if Quixote were flesh and blood.
Selected Poems