biography
| name: |
Lista (y Aragón), Alberto
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pronunciation:
[leesta]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1775–1848)
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| biography:
| Poet and critic, born in Triana, Spain. At age 20 he held the chair of mathematics at a college in Seville, and later took the chair of rhetoric and poetry at the University of Seville (1807). He went to France (1813–17), and on his return to Spain founded the Free University of Madrid and the periodical El censor. A lifelong proponent of Neoclassical principles, his Poesías (1822, 1837) show influences of Romanticism. His best-known works include El imperio de la estupidez (1798, The Empire of Stupidity), Lecciones de literatura española (1836, Lessons in Spanish Literature), and Ensayos literarios y críticos (1844, Literary and Critical Essays). |
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