Education
At the University of Zaragoza he studied Law and Philosophy.
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Jose Teijeiro
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He took his bachelor"s degree at the College of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Zaragoza, under the tutelage of Miguel Labordeta. He was a teacher for twenty years at the Cuevas Institute in Almanzora and, later, at the Goya Institute in Zaragoza. In 1959, he moved to the Universidad de Barcelona, where he was one of the founders of the Spanish Philological Institute.
He wrote his doctoral thesis on El Cancionero de 1628, a long poem by Adrián de Prado.
Blecua specialized in poetry and literature from the "Siglo de Oro". He published many works on that period and produced a monumental critical edition of the poetry of Francisco de Quevedo.
He also edited a major anthology of Spanish Renaissance poetry. An institute in Zaragoza has been named after him.
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Real Academia Española. Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona.
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Spain