Octavio G. Barreda (30 November 1897 – 2 January 1964) was a Mexicanpoet, critic, essayist, translator, and a literary promoter. Poet of secret desolation and author of some precious Sonetos a la Virgen (Sonnets to the Virgin) (1937) with hermetic background, sharp prose writer and critic. He made excellent translations to the Spanish language from works by T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence and Saint-John Perse, and was known for the generous impulse given to Mexican new literary values in the magazines he founded: ''Letras de México'' (1937-1947) and ''El Hijo Pródigo'' (1943-1946).
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