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ESPRONCEDA
EL ESTUDIANTE DE
SALAMANCA
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ESPRONCEDA
EL ESTUDIANTE DE
SALAMANCA
C A M B R I D G E
A T
T H E
U N I V E R S I T Y
P R E S S
1966
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N O T E
T H E short life of JOSE DE ESPRONCEDA ( I 8 0 8 - 1 8 4 2 )
is one of intense and hurrying activity. Even as
a schoolboy (he was a pupil of Alberto Lista) he
became involved in a political conspiracy; exiled
at seventeen, he lived in Portugal, England and
France, with that " T e r e s a " who inspired one of
his finest outbursts of song. O n the death of
Fernando V I I , in 1 8 3 3 , he returned to Spain, and
spent nine feverish years as soldier, journalist,
diplomat and politician in turn. H e died, worn
out b y life, at thirty-three.
Espronceda is a Romantic of the Romantics,
strongly influenced b y the prevailing desengano
of the age, and in particular by that manifestation
of it which w e find in the works of Byron. H e
has left us poems of all kinds—lyric, dramatic,
reflective, picturesque, historical, philosophic,
popular. El Diablo Mundo, the most notable and
most substantial of his poetic works, sets forth
with something approaching coherence his sombre
and rebellious views upon life, o n which the
shorter poems throw many sidelights. El Estudiante de Salamanca has quite a different interest,
as representing a type of work which the Spanish
Romantics, headed by Rivas and Zorrilla, brought
very near to perfection: the treatment in verse
of a fantastic national legend. Espronceda puts
into his highly modernised romance all his powers
of fancy and imagination, together with his con­
summate artistic skill. And as a result the legend
which he presents can hardly be surpassed as an
example of Romantic poetry in Spain.
E . A L L I S O N PEERS.
May
1922
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