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== Early Life == |
== Early Life == |
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The family of Julián del Casal was not wealthy, but they still lived comfortably. His mother, a Cuban native named Maria del Carmen de la Lastra y Owens, died in 1868 when Casal was four years old. He was raised by |
The family of Julián del Casal was not wealthy, but they still lived comfortably. His mother, a Cuban native named Maria del Carmen de la Lastra y Owens, died in 1868 when Casal was four years old. He was raised by his father, a Spaniard known as Julián del Casal y Ugareda, who passed later in 1885 when Casal was twenty-two years old.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Las Literaturas Hispanicas Introduccion a su estudio|last=Garfield|first=Evelyn|publisher=Wayne State University Press|year=1991|isbn=0-8143-1864-9|location=Detroit|pages=259}}</ref> <ref>{{cite book |last1=Cabrera |first1=Rosa M. |title=Julian del Casal Vida y Obra Poetica |date=1970 |publisher=Las Americas Publishing Company |location=Madrid, Spain |isbn=9688650137 |pages=7-9 |edition=1st}}</ref> |
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Casal was born into a Catholic family and was baptized on December 23rd |
Casal was born into a Catholic family and was baptized on December 23rd at two months old, in La iglesia del Santo Angel Custodio, by his godparents Don José de la Lastra and Doña Matilde de la Lastra y Owens. <ref>{{cite book |last1=Cabrera |first1=Rosa M. |title=Julian del Casal Vida y Obra Poetica |date=1970 |publisher=Las Americas Publishing Company |location=Madrid, Spain |isbn=9688650137 |pages=7-9 |edition=1st}}</ref> |
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José Julián Herculano del Casal y de la Lastra (November 7, 1863 – October 21, 1893) was a poet from Havana, Cuba.
He took his influence from the French poetic styles of the day and, later, Rubén Darío and Modernismo. Like Manuel González Prada and José Martí, Casal was an important forebearer of modernistic expression in Latin America.
Early Life
The family of Julián del Casal was not wealthy, but they still lived comfortably. His mother, a Cuban native named Maria del Carmen de la Lastra y Owens, died in 1868 when Casal was four years old. He was raised by his father, a Spaniard known as Julián del Casal y Ugareda, who passed later in 1885 when Casal was twenty-two years old.[1] [2] Casal was born into a Catholic family and was baptized on December 23rd at two months old, in La iglesia del Santo Angel Custodio, by his godparents Don José de la Lastra and Doña Matilde de la Lastra y Owens. [3]
Education
In 1870, Julián del Casal began his education at El Real Colegio de Belén. He graduated high school in 1880 and went on to enroll in the Havana University School of Law. He did not stay there long, though, before dropping out and continuing with his writing career.
Career
At the early age of fourteen, Casal began his own newspaper press with a fellow high school alumna, Arturo Mora. They titled their newspaper El Estudiante, periódico clandestino y manuscrito. After he graduated high school, he published his first work in a science, arts and literature weekly journal. Casal titled the poem El Ensayo and it was the first publication from a poet to be seen in a Cuban press. In this same year, he also began working as a clerk at El Ministerio de Hacienda, or the Treasury Department. His writing career began to pick up when in 1885, Casal began publishing works in La Habana Elegante, a Cuban magazine that acted as a medium for the Modernist movement of the time. In 1888, he began working with El Figaro as well. Later that year, he traveled to Madrid, Spain. [4]
Major Works
Casal only published two poetry collections during his lifetime, Hojas al viento and Nieve. His last collection, Bustos y rimas, appeared in 1893 shortly after his death and was completed with the help of Casal's friend, Enrique Hernández Miyares. It differs from his earlier works because it contains both prose and poetry. Hojas includes forty-nine poems and is considered an example of Casal's early writing style. The poems in this collection are topical in nature and often refer to contemporary events. A few of them were even characterized as "imitations" and show the influence of other writers. The work was well received by his contemporaries as an early offering by a poet with much promise.
Casal continued to publish poems in various Cuban periodicals and, in 1892, he collected many of these pieces in his second collection, Nieve. Divided into five sections, the poems in this collection are categorized according to theme. The first section, Bocetos antiguos, includes poems inspired by pagan and Judeo-Christian thought; the second section, Mi museo ideal, is famous because the poems contained in it were inspired by the art of Gustave Moreau, with whom Julián had an ongoing correspondence. The third section, Cromos españoles, is a collection of well-known Spanish word pictures. The fourth, Marfiles viejos, contains sixteen sonnets, all reflecting his fears and concerns about life in general. The fifth and final section titled La gruta del ensueño, completes the collection with seventeen miscellaneous poems. Nieve met with some critical success, although most contemporaries in Cuba felt that Julián del Casal's themes were too dark and pessimistic.
Later Life
Julián del Casal continued publishing works up to his death in October of 1893. Earlier that year, he had written an article about his colleague and the famous father of Modernism, Rubén Darío, in La Habana Elegante, a Cuban magazine. Casal had also begun writing his final book "Bustos y Rimas." Before his death, Casal had written a letter to Rubén Darío in which he wrote about premonitions he was having about death. Not too long after, Casal was at a colleague's home when he suffered a hemorrhage during conversation after dinner. He passed and was buried in his family pantheon. His final book, Bustos y Rimas was finished by colleague and friend Enrique Hernández Miyares and published shortly after. [5]
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- ^ Garfield, Evelyn (1991). Las Literaturas Hispanicas Introduccion a su estudio. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. p. 259. ISBN 0-8143-1864-9.
- ^ Cabrera, Rosa M. (1970). Julian del Casal Vida y Obra Poetica (1st ed.). Madrid, Spain: Las Americas Publishing Company. pp. 7–9. ISBN 9688650137.
- ^ Cabrera, Rosa M. (1970). Julian del Casal Vida y Obra Poetica (1st ed.). Madrid, Spain: Las Americas Publishing Company. pp. 7–9. ISBN 9688650137.
- ^ Cabrera, Rosa M. (1970). Julian del Casal Vida y Obra Poetica (1st ed.). Madrid, Spain: Las Americas Publishing Company. pp. 7–9. ISBN 9688650137.
- ^ Cabrera, Rosa M. (1970). Julian del Casal Vida y Obra Poetica (1st ed.). Madrid, Spain: Las Americas Publishing Company. pp. 7–9. ISBN 9688650137.