JOSÉ DE ESPRONCEDA was born at Pajares de la Vega, and educated at
Madrid, whence, having engaged in political conspiracies, he
was obliged to flee, going to Lisbon and thence to Paris. He
returned in 1833 as a journalist and playwright and represented
Almería in the Cortes. He died at Madrid. Many
once considered him the leading Spanish poet of the nineteenth
century, but the current of criticism has set against him in
later years. In his revolutionary and moral protestations he
bore certain resemblances to Lord
Byron, but it is not altogether fair to call him an imitator
of the British poet. His Obras poéticas appeared
at Madrid in 1884. |
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