biography
pronunciation:
[yorentay]
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| lived:
| (1836–1911)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Valencia, E Spain, whose father, from Rincón de Soto in La Rioja, was a relative of Juan Antonio Llorente. Until the age of 21 he wrote only in Castilian; then he was persuaded by Mariano Aguilò to write in the Valencian dialect, and in 1878 founded Lo Rat Penat, a society of amadors de la llengua valenciana. His first collection, Llibret de versos (1884–5), revealed a Romantic spirit akin to that of the European poets he introduced into Spain, Heine, Schiller, Hugo, and Byron. His translation of Goethe's Faust, Part I is still the most reliable in Spanish. He also published a history of Valencia in 1887 and the Nou llibret de versos in 1902. |
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