biography
| name: |
Noriega Varela, Antón
|
pronunciation:
[noriayga varayla]
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1869–1947)
|
| biography:
| Galician poet, born in Mondoñedo, Lugo, NW Spain. He was the first writer in Galician to transcend the sentimental tradition created by Rosalía de Castro in his four books: De ruada (1895), Montañesas (1904), A Virxen e a paisanaxe which contains a hundred popular cantigas, and the greatly accomplished Do ermo (1920). Beginning as a writer on rural ways and customs, he was influenced by the pantheism of the Portuguese Teixeira de Pascoaes, and later turned to nature lyrics and the saudade tradition of poems inspired by real or imagined nostalgia. He early enjoyed the Georgics of Virgil, and abandoned clerical studies for teaching in primary schools in the Galician countryside, where he sang of the ‘homildade sinxela das cousas, a inxenuidade dos seres imbeles e probesiños’. His influence has been felt by a number of Galician writers. |
|
|
