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A Spanish dramatist and poet, known as the "Spanish Tennyson"; born at Valladolid, Aug. 6, 1834. Of his plays the most notable are the comedies "Who Is the Author?\" (1859); "Neither So Much nor So Little" (1865); "El Haz de Lena". a drama in five acts on the subject of Don Carlos. Among his remarkably popular lyric and patriotic poems are: "The Last Lament of Lord Byron" (23d ed. 1884); "Battle Cries" (5th ed. 1885); "Vertigo" (25th ed. 1886); "An Idyl and an Elegy" (18th ed. 1886); "The Vision of Friar Luther" (1880).