Manuel Paso (1864–1901) was a Spanish

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...

and

playwright A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes play (theatre), plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between Character (arts), characters and is intended for Theatre, theatrical performance rather than just Readin ...

. Born in Granada, he was the lesser-known of the five Spanish so-called “autores premodernistas” (pre-

Modernist poetry Modernist poetry refers to poetry written between 1890 and 1950 in the tradition of modernist literature, but the dates of the term depend upon a number of factors, including the nation of origin, the particular school in quest of the critic setti ...

) Manuel Reina, Salvador Rueda,

Ricardo Gil Ricardo is the Spanish and Portuguese cognate of the name Richard. It derived from Proto-Germanic ''*rīks'' 'king, ruler' + ''*harduz'' 'hard, brave'. It may be a given name, or a surname. People Given name *Ricardo de Araújo Pereira (born 19 ...

, and

Carlos Fernández Shaw Carlos Fernández Shaw (23 September 1865 – 7 June 1911) was a Spanish poet, playwright, and journalist. He wrote the texts for many zarzuelas, including '' La revoltosa'', ''La chavala'' and '' Las bravías'', all in collaboration with José L ...

.Niemeyer, Katharina (2002) ''La poesía del premodernismo español'', p. 13. Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press
At Google Books. Retrieved 13 May 2013. He worked for the magazines ''Germinal'' and ''La Democracia Social'' and his poems were also published in '' Los Madriles''. Paso died of

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at the age of 35.

Publications

*1886: ''Nieblas''

Drama

*1898: ''Curro Vargas'' (with

Joaquín Dicenta Joaquín Dicenta Benedicto (1862–1917) was a Spanish journalist, novelist, playwright, poet and Republicanism in Spain, Republican politician. His 1895 play ''Juan José (play), Juan José'', whose representation became a staple of every Interna ...

and music by

Ruperto Chapí Ruperto Chapí y Lorente (27 March 1851 – 25 March 1909) was a Spanish composer, and co-founder of the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores, Spanish Society of Authors and Publishers. Biography Chapí was born at Villena, the son of a loc ...

) *1900: ''La Cortijera'' (with Joaquín Dicenta and music by Ruperto Chapí)

References

Bibliography

*A. W. Phillips "En torno a la poesía de Manuel Paso, olvidado escritor granadino" in L. T. González del Valle, D. Villanueva, Ed. ''Estudios en honor a Ricardo Gullón'', Nebraska, pp. 263–278 1864 births 1901 deaths Spanish male dramatists and playwrights 19th-century Spanish poets Spanish male poets 19th-century Spanish dramatists and playwrights 19th-century Spanish male writers {{Spain-poet-stub