Jacint Verdaguer The Poet of the People
No one was left unmoved when, at just 20 years of age, Jacint Verdaguer ( –) won his first Floral Games and went to collect his prize dressed in peasant clothing. And his rural origins would impact him throughout his life. A romantic poet, affiliated with the Restoration generation of , he established rich language patterns that were half cultured and half traditional. Verdaguer is one of the biggest figures of modern Catalonia, who made the Catalan language a literary language.
The son of a modest teacher and peasant from Folgueroles (Osona), he entered the Seminary of Vic in He would become a priest in a small rural parish in Osona, but he left it when he took ill and moved to Barcelona. There he would meet the Marquis of Comillas, who would make him the priest of the family and later the alms chaplain. In this period (), during which he lived in the Palau Moja and regularly attended the highest social events, he wrote two of his most important poems: L’Atlàntida () and Canigó (), the most genuine expr
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Jacint Verdaguer i Santaló ( ), a romantic writer and a key figure in the Renaixença, is regarded as the founder of modern Catalan literature. His most prominent works, which have been translated into several European languages, include L’Atlàntida, Canigó and En defensa pròpia.
He was born on the 17th of May in Folgueroles (Osona) to a humble yet somewhat cultivated peasant family. His mother taught him how to read at a very young age. When he was 10, he entered the Seminary of Vic, where he studied religious subjects for fifteen years. He was intellectually formed in the city of Vic in contact with teachers and friends and in an atmosphere of cultural resurgence, and he read the Greco-Latin, Italian, French and Spanish classics. He began to write, and at the age of 20 he won his first award at the Jocs Florals (a Catalan literary competition) of Barcelona, where he met prominent figures from the world of culture such as Marià Aguiló and Manuel Milà i Fontanals. He founded Esbart de Vic, which was made up of a group of enthusiastic students with romantic ideas and sentiments; they would meet at the Font del Desmai to practise poetry.
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Jacint Verdaguer i Santaló neix a Folgueroles (Osona) en una humil família pagesa d'una certa cultura i ja de ben jove la seva mare l'instrueix en la lectura d'alguns llibres.
Comença els estudis al Seminari de Vic, on hi estudia durant quinze anys. Encara estudiant, e li són premiades dues poesies als Jocs Florals de Barcelona
És ordenat sacerdot. En comptes de ser enviat a Barcelona a ampliar estudis &#;com la majoria dels seus companys de Vic&#; és destinat a una petita parròquia a Vinyoles d'Orís. En cap moment deixa de dedicar-se a la poesia (treballa sobretot en el poema èpic L'Atlàntida,.
Entra com a capellà de vapor de la Companyia Transatlàntica, propietat dels marquesos de Comillas. Són gairebé dos anys i nou vegades la travessia d'Amèrica (en la línia de Cuba) un període d'equilibri necessari per recuperar la salut i enllestir L'Atlàntida, que és premiada als Jocs Florals aconsegueix un èxit clamorós immediat. L'obra és entesa ja a l'època com la culminació de la Renaixença.
Resideix al palau dels marquesos de Comillas contractat com a
Jacint Verdaguer
(Jacint Verdaguer i Santaló; Folgueroles, - Vallvidrera, ) Poeta catalán, figura destacadísima de la "Renaixença" y gloria del romanticismo literario catalán. Pertenecía a una familia humilde de campesinos del llano de Vich; de niño, el futuro poeta ayudaba a su padre en los trabajos de la tierra. Fue un muchacho travieso y hasta brutal, fuerte y reñidor, ya desde sus primeros años, pero al lado de esto alentaba en él un sentimiento de ternura, una nostalgia y suavidad que contrastaban violentamente con su rudeza.
Jacint Verdaguer
Éste sería el doble aspecto de su carácter, y también el de sus obras; no obstante, dominó en él la nota violenta, el ardor de un temperamento primitivo que habría de llevarle finalmente al conflicto con sus superiores y a la tragedia que llenó por un momento el clima espiritual de Cataluña. Ya en su niñez mostró Verdaguer claramente las dos inclinaciones más vehementes de su espíritu: la religión y la poesía. Nos cuentan, en efecto, que ya en aquellos días construía en su casa capillitas, y revestido con hábitos más o menos sacerdotales, decía la misa con toda seriedad, con unción, ante un pequeño grupo de niñas, entre las cuale
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