![]() ![]() ![]() In 1889, he was crowned Spain’s national poet and was granted a government pension. Between 18, Zorrilla composed forty plays, including Don Juan Tenorio in 1844. His first volume of verse, Poesias garnered him immediate acclaim and recognition as one of the primary voices in Spain’s Romantic movement. Zorilla ran away from his wife, and financial distress, and was abroad from 1855 to 1866, where he wrote prolifically, but remained insolvent. Witnesses claimed that Zorrilla leaped into the grave and stood on the coffin to deliver his reading. In 1837, he became an overnight success after his dramatic recital of an elegy at the funeral of the essayist and satirist Mariano José de Larra. Though Zorrilla’s father hoped his son would become a lawyer, Zorrilla left his studies and went to Madrid to pursue a career as a poet. He was born in Valladolid, Spain and educated at the Real Seminario de Nobles, a Jesuit school, and later at the universities of Toledo and Valladolid. José Zorrilla y Moral (1817-1893), was a poet, dramatist, and major figure of the nationalist wing of the Spanish Romantic movement. ![]()
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