Gustavo Adolfo Becquer was one of Spain's most important poets of the 19th century, and the instigator of a new Spanish version of Romanticism, influenced by German models such as Heine. Born in Seville in 1836, the son of an artist of Flemish origin, he lived only 34 years, but in that time created a hugely influential body of verse (his Rimas, or Rhymes) as well as several short fictions (the Leyendas, or Legends). His other works include a remarkable series of letters, or epistolary fictions, published as Desde mi celda (From My Cell). Orphaned at the age of five, Becquer was raised by an...

The book is composed by a set of nine cards to Becquer wrote during his stay in the monastery of Veruela, where is refuge for replace is of the tuberculosis that you affected, and that is published individually in the newspaper Madrid the contemporary along the 1864. It is a masterpiece of 19TH century Spanish journalism. Despite this dramatic illness, incurable at that time, the tone of these writings overflowing vitality. The descriptions of the nature and of the landscape are excellent. The theme of the letters is very varied and they are very entertaining and interesting, while 150 years...