Skeptical Literature

Romanticism


                                                                               Luisa Calderon

Mariano José de Larra

He wrotehistoricalnovels and journalism.
Born in Madrid in 1809 and from his youth devoted himself to journalism. At 19 he published his first newspaper "El duende satirical day." Contracted and failed early marriage to Josephine Wetoret. Then he fell in love with a beautiful married woman named Dolores Armijo. He contributed to major newspapers in Madrid, and was admired and popular journalist who signed all his journalistic writings, usually under the pseudonym of "Figaro". Committed to the reality of his day, fought the delay, inaction and political corruption. It is within the liberal romanticism. He felt that the press was the best way to release your desire modernization.

Gustavo Adolfo Becquer (1836.1871)

In fact his name was Gustavo Adolfo DomínguezBastida,Becquer was the name of their ancestors. Born in Seville in 1836, he was dead, King Ferdinand VII, had no time and had to be romantic realism. He moved to Madrid where he worked as a journalist and civil servant. He had an unhappy marriage with Costa Esteban. Fell in love with several women who evokes in his poems and stories. Periods of economic hardship lived and died in 1871 due to lung disease. It has become the symbol of romance and intimate subjective. It is a lyric poet par excellence. Its economic hardship led him to compose a series of poems sensitive, delicate and intimate, simple shapes and moving. His work was published in magazines and newspapers of the time, but his poetry was not released until after his death. It was a collection that made his closest friends and published under the name "Rhymes".

José de Espronceda (1808, 1842)

Born in 1808 in the province of Badajoz (Extremadura).It is the leading exponent of revolutionary romanticism in his country. When I was 15 years, founded a secret society called "The Numancia" to fight against absolutism. He was convicted and later pardoned, given his age. He had a hectic political life and love. Had to immigrate to various countries: Portugal, England and France. Directly met European romanticism. During his exile in Portugal, fell in love
Teresa Mancha which kidnapped even when married. He died in Madrid in 1842, is the poet of the great effects of enthusiasm and despair. Theprevailingpessimism and disappointment in hiswork.