Eduardo Marquina
(Barcelona, 1879-New York, 1946) Spanish poet and playwright.From an Aragonese family, Eduardo Marquina studied in his hometown.Even though in his youth he wrote a lyrical drama in Catalan ( Emporium , 1906), he did not join the powerful modernist movement in Catalonia, chaired by the high figure of Joan Maragall; he composed his work in Spanish and, especially in his historical theater in verse, was the singer of the Cid Campeador and of mystical and imperialist Spain.
Eduardo Marquina
He began his literary work with the publication of modernist collection of poems such as Las Vendimias (1901), Églogas (1902) and Elegías (1905); for these collections he is considered, along with Salvador Rueda, Francisco Villaespesa and Manuel Machado, as one of the most prominent poets of Spanish modernism.Later, however, he turned to a theme more closely related to social reality in Songs of the moment (1910) and Tierras de España (1914).He also wrote novels that offer less interest.
His theater, more important for its volume and its success, is made up of a series of historical prints of modernist taste in which the lyrical predominates over the dramatic.These are mostly historical dramas in verse and very representative of a poetic theater that extols the values of a glorious past.He also cultivated oriental themes with a superficial decoration.His dramatic production includes The sun has set in Flanders (1910) Las hijas del Cid (1908), Doña María la Brava , The white monk (1930), Steps and works of Santa Teresa de Jesús (1943) and La Santa Hermandad (1939).
In June 1946 he was appointed extraordinary ambassador to attend the inauguration of the new president of Colombia; he visited other Spanish-American republics, where he gave lectures, and died suddenly in New York when he was about to return to Spain.
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