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MENENDEZ Y PELAYO, MARCELINO (1856- )

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MENENDEZ Y PELAYO, MARCELINO (1856- ) , See also:

Spanish See also:scholar and critic, was See also:born at See also:Santander on the 3rd of See also:November 1856. In 1871-1872 he studied under Mil& y Fontanals at the university of See also:Barcelona, whence he proceeded to the central university of See also:Madrid. His See also:academic successes had never been surpassed; a See also:special See also:law was passed by the See also:Cortes to enable him to become a See also:professor at the See also:age of twenty-two, and three years later he was elected a member of the Spanish See also:Academy. But before this date (1882) he was well known throughout See also:Spain. His first See also:volume, Estudios criticos sobre escritores montaneses (1876), had attracted little See also:notice, and his scholarly Horacio en Espana (1877) appealed only to students. He became famous through his Ciencia espanola (1878), a collection of polemical essays defending the See also:national tradition against the attacks of See also:political and religious reformers. The unbending orthodoxy of this See also:work is, if possible, still more pronounced in the Historia de los heterodoxos espanoles (188o-1886), and the writer was hailed as the See also:champion of the ultramontane party. His lectures (1881) on See also:Calderon established his reputation as a See also:literary critic; and his work as an historian of Spanish literature was continued in his Historia de See also:las ideas esteticas en Espana (1881-1891), his edition (1890-1903) of Lope de See also:Vega, his Antologla de poetas liricos casteilanos (1890-1906), and his Origenes de la novela (1905).

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