biography
pronunciation:
[morales]
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| lived:
| (1885–1921)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Moya, Las Canarias, Spain. He studied medicine on the mainland, returning to practise in 1911. With Rafael Romero and Saulo Torón, he was one of the trio of post-Modernist poets in the Canary Isles. His most impressive verse is on the sea, and is heavily influenced by Salvador Rueda and Rubén Darío. In 1908 appeared his first book Poemas de la gloria, del amor, y del mar, but he is remembered for the ‘Oda al Atlántico’ and similar word-pictures in his collected poems Las rosas de Hércules. His influence on other Spanish poets of his generation was perhaps due to his insistence that Greek mythology and modern technology are equally acceptable as motifs, a lesson learnt from Whitman. |
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