biography
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Sanz y Sánchez, Eulogio Florentino
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pronunciation:
[santh ee sancheth]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1822–81)
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| biography:
| Poet and dramatist, born in Arévalo, WC Spain. He studied at the University of Valladolid. His Romantic drama Don Francisco de Quevedo (1848) obtained great success with its unhistorical portrait of Quevedo as a Romantic creator beset by Weltschmerz, but Achaques de la vejez (1854) was soon forgotten by critics and public alike and, in his chagrin at this critical failure, Sanz refused to write more for the stage. Fragments of La escarcela y el puñal were published (1851) in the Semanario Pintoresco Español, the magazine which had published his poetry in 1843. Sanz's best-known poem is the ‘Epístola a Pedro’, a verse letter to his editor on a visit to the neglected tomb of Enrique Gil, which Menéndez y Pelayo judged worthy of a place in Las cien mejores poesías de la lengua castellana. Sanz fused in his poems the popular (as did his contemporary Trueba) and the Germanic (as did Selgas), for he had spent two years (1854–6) in Berlin and translated fifteen poems of Heine which appeared in El Museo Universal. |
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