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GASPAR NUREZ DE ARCE (1834—1903) , See also: Spanish poet, dramatist and statesman, was See also: born at See also: Valladolid, where he was educated for the priesthood
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He had no vocation for the ecclesiastical See also: state, plunged into literature, and produced a See also: play entitled Amer y Orgullo which was acted at Toledo in 1849
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To the displeasure of his See also: father, an official in the See also: post office, the youth refused to enter the seminary, and escaped to See also: Madrid, where he obtained employment on the staff of El Observador, a Liberal newspaper
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He afterwards founded El Bachiller See also: Honduras, a journal in which he advocated a policy of Liberal concentration, and he attracted sufficient See also: notice to justify his See also: appointment as governor of Logrono, and his nomination as deputy for Valladolid in 1865
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He was imprisoned at See also: Caceres
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for his violent attacks on the reactionary See also: ministry of Narvaez, acted as secretary to the revolutionary See also: Junta of See also: Catalonia when Isabella was dethroned, and wrote the " Manifesto to the Nation " published by the provisional See also: government on se 26th of See also: October 1868
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During the next few years he practically withdrew from See also: political See also: life till the restoration, when he attached himself to See also: Sagasta's party
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He served under Sagasta as See also: minister for the colonies, the interior, the See also: exchequer and See also: education; but See also: ill-See also: health compelled him to resign on the 27th of See also: July 189o, and henceforth he refused to take office again
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He was elected to the Spanish See also: Academy on the 8th of See also: January 1874 and was appointed a life-senator in 1886
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He died at Madrid on the 12th of See also: February 1903
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Nunez de Arce first came into notice as a dramatist, and he remained faithful to the stage for nearly a quarter of a century
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In addition to three plays written in collaboration with Antonio Hurtado, he produced z Quien es el autor
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(1859), La Cuenta del Zapalero (1859), !See also: Como se empena un maridol (186o), Deudas de la honra (1863), Ni See also: Canto ni tan poco (1865), Quien debe, gaga (1867) and El haz de See also: lena (1872)
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But Nunez de Arce+s talent was more lyrical than dramatic, and his celebritySee also: dates from the appearance of Gritos del combate (1875), a collection of poems exhorting Spaniards to See also: lay aside domestic quarrels and to save their country from anarchy, more dangerous than a See also: foreign foe
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He maintained his position (in popular esteem) as the only possible See also: rival of Campoamor by a series of philosophic,elegiac and symbolic poems: Raimundo Lulio, Ultima lamentation de See also: Lord See also: Byron (1879), Un Idilio y una Elegia (1879), La Selva oscura (1879) and La Vision de Fray Marlin (188o)
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The old brilliance sets off the naturalistic observation of La Pesca (1884) and La Maruja (1886)
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The See also: list of his See also: works is completed by Poems comes (1895) and lSursum Gorda
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(1900); Herndn el See also: lobo, published in El Liberal (January 23, 1881) and Luzbel remain unfinished
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His strength lies in the graciousness of his vision, his sincerity and command of his instrument; his weakness derives from his divided sympathies, his moods of obvious sentiment and his rhetorical facility
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But at his best, as in the Grilos del combate, he is a master of virile See also: music and patriotic See also: doctrine
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