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See also:GOMEZ DE AVELLANEDA, GERTRUDIS (1814-1873) , See also:Spanish dramatist and poet, was See also:born at Puerto Principe (See also:Cuba) on the 23rd of See also:March 1814, and removed to See also:Spain in 1836. Her Poesias liricas (1841), issued with a laudatory See also:preface by Gallego, made a most favourable impression and were republished With additional poems in 185o. In 1846 she married a diplomatist named Pedro Sabater, became a widow within a See also:year, and in 1853 married See also:Colonel Domingo Verdugo. Meanwhile she had published Sab (1839), Guatimozin (1846), and other novels of no See also:great importance. She obtained, however, a See also:series of successes on the See also:stage with Alfonso Munio (1844), a tragedy in the new romantic manner; with Said (1849), a biblical See also:drama indirectly suggested by See also:Alfieri; and with Baltasar (1858), a piece which bears some resemblance to See also:Byron's See also:Sardanapalus. Her See also:commerce with the See also:world had not diminished her natural piety, and, on the See also:death of her second See also:husband, she found so much See also:consolation in See also:religion that she had thoughts of entering a See also:convent. She died at See also:Madrid on the 2nd of See also:February 1873, ' full of mournful forebodings as to the future of her adopted See also:country. It is impossible to agree with See also:Villemain that " le genie de See also:don Luis de See also:Leon et de sainte Therese a reparu sous le voile funebre de Gomez de Avellaneda," for she has neither the See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
monk's mastery of poetic See also:form not the See also:nun's See also:sublime simplicity of soul. She has a grandiose tragical See also:vision of See also:life, a vigorous eloquence rooted in pietistic See also:pessimism, a dramatic See also:gift effective in isolated acts or scenes; but she is deficient in constructive See also:power and in intellectual force, and her lyrics, though See also:instinct with See also:melancholy beauty, or the tenderness of resigned devotion, too often lack human See also:passion and sympathy. The edition of her Obras literarias (5 vols., 1869-1871), still incomplete, shows a scrupulous care for See also:minute revision uncommon in Spanish writers; but her emendations are seldom happy. But she is interesting as a See also:link between the classic and romantic See also:schools of See also:poetry, and, whatever her See also:artistic shortcomings, she has no rivals of her own See also:sex in Spain during the 19th See also:century.
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