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Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore
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The Captain's Verses: Love Poems (New Directions Books) Chicago ” —Richard SnowThe Nobel Prize winner's classic collection of love poems Pablo Neruda, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, finished writing The Captain's Verses in 1952 while in exile on the island of Caprithe paradisal setting for the blockbuster film Il Postino ( The Postman ). Surrounded by sea, sun, and Capri's natural splendors, Neruda addressed these poems to his lover Matilde Urrutia before they were married, but didn't publish them publicly until 1963.