Key Points

• Very interested in the politics of his time

• Started his career as a liberal journalist

• Became also a drama critic and essayist

• His literary criticism prompted a new interest for the Spanish classics

• Style composed of short sentences that emphasized the small but enduring elements of existence

• Elected to the Real Academia Española in 1924

Relevant Works

• La voluntad

• La ruta de Don Quijote

• Castilla

• El político

• El paisaje de España visto por los españoles