biography
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Iglesias de la Casa, José
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pronunciation:
[iglaysias thay la
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1748–91)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Salamanca, W Spain. He belonged to the first Salamancan School, where he was educated and became known for satirical letrillas, that circulated in manuscript, in the manner of Góngora and Quevedo. He was given the pastoral name of Arcadio in the group of poets who met as the Parnaso Salmantino in 1774 and, like the others, wrote bucolic poems in the traditional style in addition to satirical verses against the low morals he observed in contemporary Salamanca. After his entry into the priesthood in 1783, he turned to more serious writing: silvas after Meléndez Valdés, La niñez laureada (1785) and La teología (1790), the only works published in his lifetime. His Poesías jocosas y serias (2 vols, 1793) first proved his dexterity in the anacreontic: En tanto que fue niño and Batilo, échame vino are equal to any lighthearted composition by Baltasar del Alcázar or Cristóbal de Castillejo, while his ballads collected as La lira de Medellín seem even more effortless than his eclogues and idylls. |
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