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J. Bcquer, Gustavo Adolfo biography Gustavo Adolfo Becquer was born in Seville on17 February, 1836. His father, don Jos Domnguez Bcquer, was costumbrist painter remarkable success, especially among English travellers of the time. When the future poet was five years old died his father and his mother, Mrs. Joaquina la Bastida and Vargas, when he was eleven. Young Bcquer studied at the colegio de San Telmo in condition poor but noble family. His uncle Joachim Domnguez Becquer, also important Sevillian painter, took the brothers.

His literary education directed at the Seville Institute by Francisco Rodrguez Zapata, disciple of the great Alberto list illustrated was classical, with specialappreciation to the Spanish and Latin poets of the golden age: fray Luis de LenHerrera or Rioja. To search the musical rhythm, adjusted expression and noble, joined a prerromntica inclination towards the sublime way to Young, Rousseau or Chateaubriand.In October 1854 he moved to Madrid, where he suffered economic hardship until 1860 Rodrguez Correa got him a fixed job editor in the contemporary.In 1857 he undertook a major work, the history of Spanish temples. It was following Chateaubriand, study the Christian art Spanish uniting religious thought, architecture and history. To earn some money he wrote in collaboration with friends, comedies and zarzuelas as bride and trousers (1856) haunted, Don Quixote-base

d selling.Bcquer, which was not yet famous, and his friends, all young, attending the gathering of the Espn. From 1858 to 1863, the Union Liberal of O'Donnell governed Spain. Bcquer married in 1861 Casta Stephen and Navarro, at this time the poet published loose most of their rhymes and legends, and made a name of keeping a familywith children. To his artistic and social promotion (protected the ConservativeMinister Gonzlez Bravo, who appointed him censor novels with an excellent salary;director of major magazines and newspapers, etc.) accompanied him a parallel postromntica Madrid society gentrification. In 1868 was separated from his wife, and lost to the liberal revolution, his official position at the time that the Minister, protector and admirer of Bcquer, Luis Gonzlez Bravo. In 1870 he became director of the enlightenment in Madrid but died on September 23 of that year.Their rhymes, and poems were compiled and published posthumously by his friends.

He was such a good poet as a prose writer. The Rimas fall in two common inherited from romanticism: the revaluation of popular poetry and aesthetic feeling call.

Rimas bibliography and legends story of the temples of Spain, Madrid, 1857, published only the literary i. letters took a wife, 1860-1861, published in the contemporary.Letters from my cell, Madrid, published in the contemporary 1864.Book of sparrows, 1868, manuscript.Work complete, Madrid, Fortanet, 1871, 2 volumes.