GUSTAVO ADOLFO See also:

• GUSTAVO ADOLFO BECQUER (1836-187o)

BECQUER (1836-187o)  , See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish poet and See also:

• ROMANCE

romance-writer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• SEVILLE
• SEVILLE (Span. Sevilla, Lat. Ispalis or Hispalis, Moorish Ishbiliya)

Seville on the 17th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1836 . See also:

• LEFT

Left an See also:

• ORPHAN

orphan at an See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age, he was educated by his godmother, refused to adopt any profession, and drifted to See also:

• MADRID

Madrid, where he obtained a small See also:

• POST

post in the See also:

• CIVIL

civil service . He was dismissed for carelessness, became an incorrigible Bohemian, and earned a See also:

• PRECARIOUS

precarious living by translating See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign novels; he died in See also:

• GREAT

great poverty at Madrid on the 22nd of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 187o . His See also:

• WORKS

works were published posthumously in 1873 . In such See also:

• PROSE

prose tales as El Rayo de See also:

• LUNA (mod. Luni)
• LUNA, ALVARO DE (d. 1453)

Luna and La Mujer de piedra, See also:

• BECQUER, GUSTAVO ADOLFO (1836-187o)

Becquer is manifestly influenced by See also:

• HOFFMANN, AUGUST HEINRICH (1798–1874)
• HOFFMANN, ERNST THEODOR WILHELM (1776-1822)
• HOFFMANN, JOHANN JOSEPH (1805-1878)

Hoffmann, and as a poet he has analogies with See also:

• HEINE, HEINRICH, (1797-1856)

Heine . He dwells in a fairyland of his own, crooning a weird elfin See also:

• MUSIC

music which has no parallel in Spanish; his See also:

• WORK

work is unfinished and unequal, but it is singularly See also:

• FREE

free from the See also:

• RHETORIC (Gr. psroperctj TEXvq, the art of the orator)

rhetoric characteristic of his native See also:

• ANDALUSIA, or ANDALUCIA

Andalusia, and its lyrical ardour is of a beautiful sweetness and sincerity .