Casal, Julián del (h
lyän` dĕl käsäl`), 1863–93, Cuban poet, b. Havana. A friend of Rubén Darío, Casal became a leader in modernismo modernismo (mōthārnē`smō), movement in Spanish literature that had its beginning in Latin America.
..... Click the link for more information. . He was greatly influenced by the French Parnassians Parnassians (pärnăs`ēənz), group of 19th-century French poets, so called from their journal the Parnasse contemporain.
..... Click the link for more information. . Afflicted with a painful form of tuberculosis, he wrote verse expressing deep pessimism, often choosing subjects from antiquity and far-off lands, especially Japan. His best-known collections are Hojas al viento [leaves in the wind] (1890) and Bustos y rimas [busts and rhymes] (1893).
lyän` dĕl käsäl`), 1863–93, Cuban poet, b. Havana. A friend of Rubén Darío, Casal became a leader in modernismo modernismo (mōthārnē`smō), movement in Spanish literature that had its beginning in Latin America...... Click the link for more information. . He was greatly influenced by the French Parnassians Parnassians (pärnăs`ēənz), group of 19th-century French poets, so called from their journal the Parnasse contemporain.
..... Click the link for more information. . Afflicted with a painful form of tuberculosis, he wrote verse expressing deep pessimism, often choosing subjects from antiquity and far-off lands, especially Japan. His best-known collections are Hojas al viento [leaves in the wind] (1890) and Bustos y rimas [busts and rhymes] (1893).
Bibliography
See critical edition of his poems in English (3 vol., 1976–78); selected prose in English (1949); study by P. Pearsall (1984).
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