Bécquer

[ be-ker ]

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noun

Gus·ta·vo A·dol·fo [goos-, tah, -vaw ah-, thawl, -faw], 1836–70, Spanish poet.

Becquer entered upon his new labors in 1861, and was a fairly regular contributor until the suppression of the paper.

Becquer was passionately fond of his children, and succeeded in keeping them with him after the separation from his wife.

Becquer, with extreme punctiliousness, tendered his resignation as censor of novels.

Zorilla has been said to be Becquer's most immediate precursor, in that he possesses the same instinct for the mysterious.

Whatever Becquer may have owed to Heine, in form or substance, he was no servile imitator.

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