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Manuel Acuña (1849–1873)
Acuña, Manuel (ä-kön’yä). A Mexican poet (1849–73), whose bold skepticism in ‘Ante un Cadáver’ made his suicide seem to some entirely appropriate. He himself, in his last poem, attributed the act to disappointment in love. His play, ‘El Passado,’ was popular.