A Reappraisal of Becquer

Literary historians and scholars have ordinarily designated Gustavo Adolfo B6cquer as a post-Romantic. In the anthologies his works occupy a place after those of Espronceda, the Duque de Rivas, and Zorrilla. Usually the selections from Becquer's poems are meager by comparison with those of his Romantic predecessors. It is easy to conclude-and this has quite often occurred-that B6cquer was a minor poet who appeared at the end of the Romantic movement; that he made no original contribution to Spanish poetry but continued, rather, a type of literary expression by then outmoded and long since abandoned by most of the writers who had once found

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