She was born in Santiago de Compostela in 1837. She wrote both in Galician and Spanish. Although she was a devoted creator of prose, she excelled at poetry, a genre in which she created her masterpieces. She is considered an essential literary figure of the 20th century, both for her literary contribution in general and for the fact that her “Cantares Gallegos” are the first great work of contemporary Galician literature. Furthermore, she is considered, together with Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, as the forerunner of modern Spanish poetry. Her sensitivity designed an ensemble of magnificent visions of the Galician landscape in which a grey atmosphere of indefinable sadness predominates and where human reality is expressed by an animated countryside. She died in Padrón in 1885.
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Follas novas
Fine collection of poems written by one of the foremost representatives of Spanish Romanticism.
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Copy of ‘Follas novas’
This is considered by some experts to be Rosalía de Castro's masterpiece.
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Spanish National Library (Madrid)
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- Cantares gallegos
