"It had been more than 100 years since any book by Teodor Llorente had been published in Catalonia," he says. Oriol Magrinyà, editor of Barcino, who has broken this long hiatus thanks to Poetic Anthology, twelfth volume of the collection EssentialsEdited and with a foreword by the great contemporary specialist on the author, Rafael Roca, the volume commemorates the poet and intellectual who "led the Valencian branch of the Renaixença" through a generous and representative selection of his work, which includes such emblematic poems as The shack, Storm and The three strings of the harpIf the Principality had such a relevant author as Jacint Verdaguer (Folgueroles, 1845 - Barcelona, ​​1902) and the Balearic Islands with the influential presence of Mariano Aguiló (Palma, 1825 - Barcelona, ​​1897), the Valencian Country had a figure as relevant as that of Teodoro Llorente (Valencia, 1836-1911): thanks to his Libretto of verses (1885) A good number of Valencians learned to read in their language throughout much of the 20th century.