by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · Santillana Educación, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788491221708
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«Rimas y Leyendas» is the poetry and narrative work by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, published by Santillana Educación in paperback (288 pages, in Spanish).
This edition brings together the Rimas, poems of an intimate and symbolic tone about love, disillusionment and poetic creation, and the Leyendas, fantastic tales where the supernatural breaks into realistic settings. Bécquer, influenced by German Romanticism, prioritises suggestion over rhetorical excess and, with his lyrical voice, heralds contemporary poetry.
It is the 3rd edition, published in 2016 within the Clásicos de Loqueleo collection.
Aimed at students and young readers beginning their journey into the classics of Spanish Romanticism.
Gustavo Adolfo Claudio Domínguez Bastida, better known as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, was a Spanish Romantic poet and writer, also a playwright, literary columnist, and talented in drawing. He is one of the most important figures in Spanish literature, with some considering him the most read Spanish writer after Miguel de Cervantes. He adopted the alias of Bécquer as his brother Valeriano Bécquer, a painter, had done earlier. He was associated with the romanticism and post-romanticism movements and wrote while realism enjoyed success in Spain. He was moderately well-known during his life, but it was after his death that most of his works were published. His best-known works are the Rhymes and the Legends, usually published together as Rimas y leyendas. These poems and tales are essential to studying Spanish literature and common reading for high-school students in Spanish-speaking countries.
