Spanish poet, translator and critic born in Ciudad Real (1926), Angel Crespo He published his first book of poems, A language emerges, in 1950. Among other publications, it was followed by Signs remain (1951) Florentine Dozen (1960) In the middle of the road (1971) Where there is no air (1981) The air belongs to the gods (1982) The transparent forest (1983) The bird in its own air (1985) and Fire occupation (1990).

In 1962 he founded and directed the Revista de Cultura Brasileña (Brazilian Culture Magazine), sponsored by the Brazilian Embassy in Madrid, which continues
He directed until 1970. Between 1967 and 1988, he was a professor in the Department of Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico. In 1988, he returned permanently to Spain and settled in Barcelona, ​​where he was a Visiting Professor at the Central University and the Autonomous University and was finally appointed Professor Emeritus at Pompeu Fabra University.

An admirable translator of Dante, Petrarch and Pessoa, among many other Italian and Portuguese authors, he received the National Translation Prize in 1984. He died in Barcelona at the end of 1995.