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BECQUER, GUSTAVO ADOLFO (1836-187o)

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BECQUER, GUSTAVO ADOLFO (1836-187o) , See also:Spanish poet and See also:romance-writer, was See also:born at See also:Seville on the 17th of See also:February 1836. See also:Left an See also:orphan at an See also:early See also:age, he was educated by his godmother, refused to adopt any profession, and drifted to See also:Madrid, where he obtained a small See also:post in the See also:civil service. He was dismissed for carelessness, became an incorrigible Bohemian, and earned a See also:precarious living by translating See also:foreign novels; he died in See also:great poverty at Madrid on the 22nd of See also:December 187o. His See also:works were published posthumously in 1873. In such See also:prose tales as El Rayo de See also:Luna and La Mujer de piedra, Becquer is manifestly influenced by See also:Hoffmann, and as a poet he has analogies with See also:Heine. He dwells in a fairyland of his own, crooning a weird elfin See also:music which has no parallel in Spanish; his See also:work is unfinished and unequal, but it is singularly See also:free from the See also:rhetoric characteristic of his native See also:Andalusia, and its lyrical ardour is of a beautiful sweetness and sincerity.

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