biography
| name: |
Rueda Santos, Salvador
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pronunciation:
[rooayda santos]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1857–1933)
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| biography:
| Poet and essayist, born in Málaga, S Spain. Self-taught and almost illiterate until age 18, he was later given employment on the Madrid Gaceta by Núñez de Arce. His first book, Noventa estrofas (1883), anticipated some of the Modernist innovations of Rubén Darío, and his exuberant style evolved through Aires españoles (1890) to his first important work, En tropel: cantos españoles (1893), with a preface by Darío and a new landscape - that of Asturias. Most of his poetry was highly coloured, spontaneous, and musical, though at times superficial and occasionally lacking in artistic good taste. His Poesias completas (1911) were supplemented by Cantando por ambos mundos (1914). His prose costumbrista writings dwelt on Andalucia, like most of his poetry: El patio andaluz (1886), El cielo alegre (1887), and Granada y Sevilla (1890). His novels and plays were less successful. |
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