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BECQUER, GUSTAVO ADOLFO (1836-187o)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 611 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BEC-BER
BECQUER, GUSTAVO ADOLFO (1836-187o) , Spanish poet and romance-writer, was born at
Seville
  on the 17th of
February
  1836. Left an orphan at an early age, he was educated by his godmother, refused to adopt any profession, and drifted to Madrid, where he obtained a small post in the civil service. He was dismissed for carelessness, became an incorrigible Bohemian, and earned a
precarious
  living by translating foreign novels; he died in
great
  poverty at Madrid on the 22nd of December 187o. His works were published posthumously in 1873. In such
prose
  tales as El Rayo de Luna and La Mujer de piedra,
Becquer
  is manifestly influenced by
Hoffmann
 , and as a poet he has analogies with Heine. He dwells in a fairyland of his own, crooning a weird elfin music which has no parallel in Spanish; his
work
  is unfinished and unequal, but it is singularly free from the
rhetoric
  characteristic of his native
Andalusia
 , and its lyrical ardour is of a beautiful sweetness and sincerity.


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