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AGUILERA, VENTURA RUIZ (182o-1881)

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AGUILERA, VENTURA See also:RUIZ (182o-1881) , See also:Spanish poet, was See also:born in 1820 at See also:Salamanca, where he graduated in See also:medicine. He removed to See also:Madrid in 1844, engaged in journalism and won considerable popularity with a collection of poems entitled Ecos nacionales (1849). His Elegias y Armonias (1863) was no less successful, but his Slams (1874) and Estaciones del See also:alto (1879) showed that his See also:powers were declining. He wrote under the obvious See also:influence of Lamartine, See also:preaching the See also:gospel of liberal-ism and See also:Christianity in verses which, though deficient in force, leave the impression of a sincere devotion and a charming See also:personality. He became director of the See also:national archaeological museum at Madrid, where he died on the 1st of See also:July 1881.

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