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MANUEL JOSE QUINTANA (1772-1857)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 761 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MANUEL JOSE See also:QUINTANA (1772-1857)  , See also:Spanish poet and See also:man of letters, was See also:born at See also:Madrid on the 1th of See also:April 1772, and after completing his studies at See also:Salamanca was called to the See also:bar . In 18oi he produced a tragedy, El Duque de Viseo, founded on M . G . See also:Lewis's See also:Castle Spectre; his Pelayo (18o5), written on a patriotic theme, was more successful . The first See also:volume of his Vidas de Espanoles celebres (1807-33), containing lives of Spanish patriots, stirred the public See also:imagination and secured See also:Quintana the See also:post of secretary to the See also:Cortes during the See also:French invasion . His proclamations and odes fanned the See also:national See also:enthusiasm into See also:flame . But he was See also:ill rewarded for his services, for on the return of See also:Ferdinand VII. he was imprisoned at See also:Pamplona from 1814 to 1820 . He was finally given a small post in the See also:civil service, became See also:tutor to See also:Queen See also:Isabella, and was nominated senator . Though publicly " crowned " as the representative poet of See also:Spain (1855), he seems to have lived in poverty . He died on the filth of See also:March 1857 . His poems, See also:thirty-four in number, are inspired by philanthropy and patriotism; the See also:style is occasionally gallicized, and the thought is not profound, but his See also:nobility of sentiment and resounding See also:rhetoric attract every See also:generation of Spaniards . See an excellent monograph by E .

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Manuel Jose Quintana, ensayo critico y biogrdfico (See also:Paris, 1892) .

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