![]() He led his city-state out of foreign domination and transformed it into a wellspring of art and culture. ![]() The cultural institutions he established included a library of hieroglyphic books, a zoological garden-arboretum, and a self-governing academy of scholars and poets. Nezahualcoyotl was not only a great lyric poet, but was famed as an architect, engineer, city planner, reluctant warrior, lawgiver, and philosopher. ![]() Filled with thought, symbol, and myth, his poetry moved his people's culture so deeply that after his death generations of poets to follow would stand by the huehuetl drum and cry, "I am Nezahualcoyotl, I am Hungry Coyote," and sing his poems and keep them alive. His compositions had vast influence, stylistically and in content. Nezahualcoyotl (Hungry Coyote) was considered by his peers to be the greatest poet of ancient Mexico. ![]()
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