biography
| name: |
Curros Enríquez, Manuel
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pronunciation:
[kuros enreeketh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1851–1908)
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| biography:
| Major Galician poet, born in Celanova, Orense, NW Spain. Considered one of the best 19th-c poets, along with Rosalía de Castro and Eduardo Pondal, he worked as a journalist throughout his life, his most formative period being that with El Imparcial of Madrid (1870–6). He returned to Galicia, since he believed himself the political conscience and the true voice of the people. A secular poet of pronounced liberal ideas, he is the Galician nearest to the Portuguese Antero de Quental. His first collection was Aires de miña terra (1880). O divino sainete (1888) is a long poem in 18 cantos on a journey to Rome with his friend Francisco Añón. El Padre Feijoo (first performed in 1879), is a one-act verse loa on an imaginary incident in the life of Feijoo. He settled in Cuba in 1904 and died in Havana. |
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