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Clarinda's "Discourse in Praise of Poetry" has, in the more than three centuries since its publication, become one of Peru's most lauded texts.It is "one of the most celebrated products of the Academia Antártica", and it has greatly surpassed in fame the Mexía de Fernangil translation it preceded in its initial publication.Some contemporary scholars view the poem as a fundamental piece in Peru's literary history and an influence on later Peruvian writers like José Maria Arguedas and Ciro Alegría.