Gaspar Nuñez de Arce

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Gaspar Nuñez de Arce

Gaspar Núñez de Arce (born August 4, 1834 in Valladolid , Spain , † June 9, 1903 in Madrid ) was a Spanish poet, journalist and politician.

Life

Born the son of a simple postal worker, a church career was predetermined for him, which he vehemently rejected. He moved to Madrid and started working as a journalist there. In his chronicles he reported on the Spanish-Moroccan War from 1859 to 1860; later he became civil governor of Barcelona and minister under Sagasta and his Liberal Party. In 1874 he became a member of the Real Academia Española .

plant

Gaspar Núñez de Arce wrote historical dramas and narrative poems with historical material. In his poetry there is a greater effort to find literary form than, for example, in his contemporary Ramón de Campoamor .

theatre

  • El haz de leña (1872)
  • Deudas de la honra (1863)
  • Quien debe paga (1867)
  • Justicia providencial (1872)

prose

  • Recuerdos de la campaña de África (1860)

Narrative poems

  • Raimundo Lulio (1875)
  • La selva oscura (1879)
  • La última lamentación de Lord Byron (1879)
  • Un idilio (1879)
  • El vértigo (1879)
  • La visión de fray Martín (1880)
  • La pesca (1884)
  • Maruja (1886)

Lyric poems

  • Gritos de combate (1875)
  • Versos perdidos
  • Poemas cortos

literature

  • Franzbach, Martin: History of Spanish Literature at a Glance . Stuttgart: Reclam, 1993, p. 227.
  • García López, José: Historia de la literatura española . Barcelona: Ediciones Vicens-Vives, 1972, pp. 494-496.
personal data
SURNAME Núñez de Arce, Gaspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish writer, journalist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Valladolid , Spain
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1903
Place of death Madrid , Spain