Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer was a Spanish poet and writer from Seville, one of the great voices of Spanish Romanticism. His short poems, the Rimas, about love, dreams and loss, are still among the most read in Spanish, and his Leyendas, gothic tales of old Spain full of ghosts, spirits and night, made Soria, Toledo and the Moncayo places of legend. He died young, in Madrid, and most of his work was collected after his death.