Key Points

• Spanish writer well known by his poems and legends of gloomy romantic style

• Founded a revolutionary newspaper promptly suppressed by the government

• Representative of a bohemian and disorganized life-style

• His life attitude was reaction against the constant meanness he saw in society

• Obtained a gold medal of honor from the Spanish Academy

• Member of the Spanish Royal National Academy

Relevant Works

• Elegía a Mariano José de Larra

• Libro de versos

• Cada cual con su razón

• Cantos del Trovador

• Granada

• El zapatero y el rey

• Don Juan Tenorio