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MELENDEZ VALDES, JUAN (1754-1817) , Spanish poet, was born at Ribera del Fresno, Badajoz, on the rith of March
pastoral
academy
pastoral
Camacho
Saragossa , whence he was transferred two years later to a post in the chancery court
Godoy an enlarged edition of his poems, the new matter consisting principally of unsuccessful imitations of Milton and Thomson; but the poet was rewarded by promotion to a high post in the treasury at Madrid. On the fall of Jovellanos in 1798 Melendez Valdes was dismissed and exiled from the capital ; he returned in 18o8 and accepted office under Joseph Bonaparte. He had previously denounced the French usurper in his verses. He now outraged the feelings of his countrymen by the grossest flattery of his foreign master, and in 1813 he fled to Alais. Four years later he died in poverty at Montpellier. His remains were removed to Spain in 1900. In natural talent and in acquired accomplishment Melendez Valdes was not surpassed by any contemporary Spaniard; he failed from want of character, and his profound insincerity affects his poems. Yet he has fine moments in various veins, and his imitation of Jean
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