The Hermandad Lírica was the name given to a group of 19th century Spanish Romantic women poets who congregated and gave each other mutual support. Their salon examined literature and the issues facin
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 t
Hermandad Lírica
…intellectual activity and literary expression. The works of the Hermandad Lírica influenced later poetry. Their influence is seen in the works of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, whose poems recall Dolores Cabrera and Heredia in which the woman is beautiful but incapable of feeling love. They also influenced poems by Carolina…
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer by his brother, Valeriano Bécquer
Glorieta de Bécquer in Seville, Spain
Bécquer at 19
Title page of Bécquer's 'Obras' (1871), First Edition