biography
| name: |
Pondal Abente, Eduardo
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pronunciation:
[pondal abayntay]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1835–1917)
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| biography:
| Galician poet, born in Ponteceso, La Coruña, NW Spain, who also wrote in Castilian. He is considered with Rosalía de Castro y Manuel Curros Enríquez a leader of the Galician Revival of the 19th-c. He studied medicine in Santiago and spent some time as an army doctor, retiring early to the Galician countryside with which he identified himself in his writing. The bard of Bergantiños, as he was known, recreated his own Celtic myths, tending towards pessimism and a melancholy pantheism. Rumores de los pinos (1877) was the first major success of this quiet, reflective poet, but his most famous book was Queixumes dos pinos (1886), and especially the long poem A campana de Anllóns, which was subsequently corrected and expanded in a separate volume. All these works, together with O dolmen de Dombate (1895), were reissued in Poesías (1935) by the Academia Galega. |
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