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However, at an early date there were many strolling players who are classed in the Viaje entretenido in no less than eight professional grades: The bululú, a solitary stroller who went from village to village reading simple pieces in public places and living from the scanty collections taken among the audience.
The Escenas montañesas are direct descendants of the Escenas andaluzas and the Escenas matritenses. The better known works of Pereda are Don Gonzalo González de la Gonzalera, Pedro Sánchez, and Sotileza. At one time he also sought to become a realist, but his nature revolted. He was always an idealist, and at times a mystic.
Pereda's language is academically correct, with some of the flavor of Cervantes; but his thought is often ponderous, or even obscure. He is at his best when he pictures the uncouth homely life of his highland peasants or simple fisher-folk. This he does with the truthfulness of the most scrupulous realist, but without stooping to pornographic detail.
Both are given sufficient elements of good to dismiss them at the close with the partial realization of their desires. One character particularly local to Spanish literature is the Indiano. In general usage the term is applied to those who enter Spain, coming from the Latin-American countries, though properly it should include perhaps only natives of the West Indies.
This work won for him the degree of Doctor of Divinity, conferred with other evidences of favor by Pope Urban VIII. Three years later appeared Lope's Laurel de Apolo, a poem of some seven thousand lines describing an imaginary festival given on Mount Helicon in April, 1628, by Apollo, at which he rewards the poets of merit.
Written in Lope's more mature years, at the time of his greatest activity, and probably corrected or rewritten seven years later, this play contains few of the inaccuracies and obscure passages so common to many of his works, reveals to us much of interest in Spanish daily life and in a way reflects the condition of the Spanish capital during the reign of Philip IV, which certainly was one of the most brilliant in the history of the kingdom.
While a Familiar of the Inquisition the true Lope wrote love-letters for the loose-living Duque de Sessa, till at last his confessor threatened to deny him absolution. Nor is this all: his intrigue with Marta de Navares Santoyo, wife of Roque Hernández de Ayala, was notorious."
His genius is uneven, but when at his best Palacio Valdés is one of the most charming of modern novelists. His better known works are probably La hermana San Sulpicio and La alegría del capitán Ribot.
There is constant repetition of common words and expressions, so that comparatively long lessons may be assigned and the pupil may be enabled to acquire an extensive knowledge of useful every-day Spanish and become familiar with the structure of the Spanish sentence at an earlier period than has been possible heretofore.
Esto es verdad, y es falso el título, porque en él se da á entender, que el estudio de la Retórica para nada sirve, y así lo afirma este Escritor famoso. Con mejores fundamentos admitió, y probó la necesidad del arte el P.FR. LUIS DE GRANADA en su Retórica Christiana. At in solo foecundo plus cultor, quam ipsa per se bonitas soli efficiet. Quintil. Instit. orat. lib.
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