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AGUSTIN See also: Spanish See also: scholar, was See also: born in 1789 at See also: Madrid, where his See also: father was See also: court physician
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He was sent to the seminary at Vergara, whence he returned learned in the traditions of Spanish See also: romance
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In 1817 he began the study of philosophy and See also: law at the university of Seville, and in due course was admitted to the See also: bar at See also: Valladolid
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From 1821 to 1823 he held a See also: post in the See also: education department at Madrid, but in the latter See also: year he was suspended on account of his See also: political opinions
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In 1834 he became secretary of the See also: board for the censorship of the See also: press, and shortly afterwards obtained a post in the See also: national library at Madrid
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The revolution of 184o led to his dismissal; but he was reinstated in 1843, and in 1854 was appointed chief librarian
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Next year, however, he retired to devote himself to his See also: literary See also: work
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In 1828, shortly after his first discharge from office, he published anonymously his Discurso sobre el injlujo que ha tenido la critica moderna en la decadencia del teatro antiguo; this See also: treatise greatly influenced the younger dramatists of the See also: day
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He next endeavoured to See also: interest his See also: fellow-countrymen in their See also: ancient, neglected See also: ballads, and in the forgotten dramas of the 17th century
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Five volumes of a Romancero general appeared from 1828 to 1832 (republished, with considerable additions, in 2 vols
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1849-1851), and Talia espanola (1834), a reprint of old Spanish comedies
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See also: Duran's Romancero general is the fullest collection of the kind and is therefore unlikely to be superseded, though the texts are inferior to those edited by Menendez y Pelayo
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