In Manila in 1940, the Commonwealth Literary Prize in English poetry was given to Rafael Zulueta Da Costa (1915–1990) for Like the Molave and Other Poems.

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Perchance to Dream ... Jun 19, '08 9:19 PM for everyone ... I wish to dwell on that love I have for literature. That year, we were reading selections in English literature. Our teacher introduced to us

I wanted to focus on a poem by the excellent Filipino poet Rafael Zulueta da Costa who won the Commonwealth Literary Prize way back in the early 40's in the Philippines.

I wanted to focus on a poem by the excellent Filipino poet Rafael Zulueta da Costa who won the Commonwealth Literary Prize way back in the early 40's in the Philippines.

In his expressionist way the Commonwealth Prize-winning poet Rafael Zulueta da Costa made of this in his book Like the Molave, which today could read as more celebratory than poetic.

In his expressionist way the Commonwealth Prize-winning poet Rafael Zulueta da Costa made of this in his book Like the Molave, which today could read as more celebratory than poetic.

This reminds me of that long, famous poem “Like the Molave” of Rafael Zulueta da Costa that won the Commonwealth Literary Prize in 1940. Strong, sturdy and stubborn, the Filipino youth will...

In my heart I knew something was wrong, there were quite a few Filipino writers of note like the poet Rafael Zulueta da Costa and the fictionist Bienvenido N. Santos.

Today, my bad, my bad: self abandoned on-line students and went gallivanting in Daly City. ... Reading for the Day: Excerpts from Rafael Zulueta y da Costa's "Like the Molave"