Romantic Legends of Spain: Tales of Ghosts, Moors and Miracles

Spanish legends retold by the poet who is to Spain what Poe is to America - the moonbeam, the green eyes, the organist of Seville who plays after his death. Bécquer died at thirty-four and was famous only afterwards. This edition is bound with sixty plates of painting from 1835–1925, among them R...

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836-1870) was a Spanish poet and writer born in Seville, orphaned young and dependent on journalism. He died of tuberculosis at thirty-four; his friends published his poems and legends the following year and he became the most beloved of Spanish romantic poets. His works ...