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Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

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    (February 7, 1836-December 22, 1870)
    Born in Seville, Spain
    Born Gustavo Adolfo Claudio Domínguez Bastida
    Wrote the poetry collections 'Rhymes' and 'Book of the Sparrows', short story collection 'Legends', and collection of literary essays 'Letters from My Cell' (1864)
    Wrote for the newspaper El Contemporáneo (1861-1865)
    Poems and short stories in El Contemporáneo posthumously published as 'Works, 2 vol.' (1871)
    Died of tuberculosis in Madrid

Why he might be annoying:

    When he and his two friends moved to Madrid for work as authors, he was the only one without a real job and steady income.
    He was fired from a government job shortly after getting it because he spent so much time writing and drawing.
    His marriage to Casta Esteban Navarro wasn't a happy one.
    He mainly wrote about his lover Elisa Guillén during his marriage.
    It was rumored that his third child Emilio Eusebio was born out of his affair with Elisa Guillén.
    In his will, he wrote to a friend to burn his letters and publish his poems instead, believing that he would be more well-known after his death.

Why he might not be annoying:

    His father died when he was five, and his mother when he was eleven.
    He is the second most read Spanish language writer after Miguel de Cervantes.
    His poems form the foundation of modern Spanish poetry.
    Despite the poverty he experienced in Madrid that dashed his hopes of living a prosperous life shortly upon arriving there, he managed to persevere and become an influential literary figure.
    In stark contrast to the rhetorical, dramatic style of Romantic poetry, his lyricism is simple and airy.
    His poems deal with themes of love, particularly feelings of disillusionment and loneliness.

Credit: Big Lenny


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 75 Votes: 53.33% Annoying