Juan Meléndez Valdés
Real Academia Española | |
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| In office 16 July 1812 – 24 May 1817 | |
| Preceded by | Joaquín Juan Flores |
| Succeeded by | Agustín de Silva y Palafox |
Juan Meléndez Valdés (11 March 1754 – 24 May 1817) was a Spanish neoclassical poet.
Biography
He was born at Ribera del Fresno, in what is now the province of Badajoz. Destined by his parents for the priesthood, he graduated in law at Salamanca, where he became indoctrinated with the ideas of the French philosophical school. In 1780 with Batilo, a pastoral in the manner of Garcilaso de la Vega, he won a prize offered by the Spanish academy; next year he was introduced to Jovellanos, through whose influence he was appointed to a professorship at Salamanca in 1783.
The pastoral scenes in Las Bodas de Camacho (1784) do not compensate for its undramatic nature, but it gained a prize from the municipality of
On the fall of Jovellanos in 1798 Meléndez Valdés was dismissed and exiled from the capital; he returned in 1808 and accepted office as a Minister of Public Instruction in 1811, under
Many of his successors, including
References
- Real Academia Española(in Spanish). Retrieved 27 May 2023.
- OCLC 28928657.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Melendez Valdés, Juan". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 93.
- Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- http://www.las9musas.net/siglo18/mvaldes/bibmelen.html Archived 2009-01-05 at the Wayback Machine
- http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/bib_autor/melendez/imagenes3b.shtml
- W. E. Colford, Juan Meléndez Valdés. A Study in the transition from Neo-Classicism to Romanticism in Spanish Poetry. New York, Hispanic Institute, (1942), 369 pages.
- G. Demerson, Don Juan Meléndez Valdés et son temps. Paris, Lib. Klincksieck, (1962)
- R. Froldi, Un poeta illuminista: Meléndesz Valdés, Milan, Ist. Editoriale Cisalpino, (1967)
- G. Demerson, Don Juan Meléndez Valdés y su tiempo (1754 - 1817) Madrid, Ed. Taurus, (1971), 2 vols. Enlarged new edition, in Spanish, of the afore mentioned text.
- R. M. Cox, Juan Meléndez Valdés, New York Twayne Publications (1974), 179 pages.
External links
- Works by Juan Meléndez Valdés at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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