Valentín Marín and Carbonel

Valentín Marín Carbonell, was a Spanish poet and journalist of the second half of the nineteenth century. Biography

He was born in Barcelona, ​​but lived in Zaragoza and was always considered Aragonese. He was Victor Balaguer's nephew. His prose is a costumbrista and wrote articles of this laya in the Magazine of Aragon (1878), of which he was cofounder, sonetos in the Iberian Magazine (1883) and collaborations in the Spanish and American Illustration (1903-1905). As a poet he was a somonetist torrential (five hundred sonnets include his lyrical poems - Zaragoza, 1881 - thematically very heterogeneous book of 820 pages) that can be framed within Postromanticism or late Romanticism, assimilating both the influence of Bécquer and Campoamor; is skilful and correct versifier, although heaping up, without personality, mediocre, prosaic, uninspired, nothing novel and at all differentiator of the good and the bad. It mainly cultivates the assonante rhyme or the sonnet. He sang love, the Virgin, the Motherland and the Canfranc railway project, the Zaragoza floods, the Alcudia Bridge catastrophe, or contemporary writers such as Leopoldo Alas (who was an adverse critic of his first book) or Armando Palacio Valdés. He was also a dramatic author. Works Source

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