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QUINTANA, MANUEL JOSE (1772-1857)

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 761 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PYR-RAY
QUINTANA, MANUEL JOSE (1772-1857) , Spanish poet and man of letters, was born at Madrid on the 1th of
April
  1772, and after completing his studies at Salamanca was called to the bar. In 18oi he produced a tragedy, El Duque de Viseo, founded on M. G.
Lewis
 's Castle Spectre; his Pelayo (18o5), written on a patriotic theme, was more successful. The first volume of his Vidas de Espanoles celebres (1807-33), containing lives of Spanish patriots, stirred the public
imagination
  and secured
Quintana
  the post of secretary to the
Cortes
  during the French invasion. His proclamations and odes fanned the national enthusiasm into flame. But he was ill rewarded for his services, for on the return of Ferdinand VII. he was imprisoned at Pamplona from 1814 to 1820. He was finally given a small post in the civil service, became tutor to Queen
Isabella
 , and was nominated senator. Though publicly " crowned " as the representative poet of Spain (1855), he seems to have lived in poverty. He died on the filth of
March
  1857. His poems, thirty-four in number, are inspired by philanthropy and patriotism; the style is occasionally gallicized, and the thought is not profound, but his
nobility
  of sentiment and resounding rhetoric attract every generation of Spaniards.
See an excellent monograph by E. Pifieyro,
Manuel
  Jose
Quintana
 , ensayo critico y biogrdfico (Paris, 1892).


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