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He was born in Madrid on 3 September 1871 and died in Málaga in 1945.
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He was born in Madrid on 3 September 1871 and died in Málaga in 1945.
As a poet, he is classified into the movement known as Hispanic Modernismo. Around 1907, he translated Los Trofeos (the Trophies) (1893) by Jose Maria de Heredia, the most important book from this aesthetic. As a diplomat he lived for some time in Istanbul, a city to which he devoted the memoirs A orillas del Bósforo, Estocolmo, San Petersburgo, Bucarest, Berlínew york México (On the banks of the Bosphorus, Stockholm, Street St. Petersburg, Bucharest, Berlin and Mexico).
He received the Gran Cruz de la Estrella Polar from the hands of the King of Sweden, and also the Gran Cruz de la Corona, a proposal by the Minister of Romania.
He was stationed in Buenos Aires in 1926, in February 1927 but had to cease duties suddenly for protesting along with the aviator Ramon Franco for the establishment of a regular airline between France and Argentina, which Spain had long delayed. This caused Franco to be arrested and Zayas was unposted.
He spent the Civil War in the Royal Legation of Romania, where he was a diplomat. Next came Retratos antiguos (Old Portraits), in the same year.
Paisajes (Landscapes) was released in 1903.
This was his clearest venture into symbolism in that the work did not tend to marmoreally paint the outside but the soul. Noches blancas (White Nights) and Leyenda (Legend) were released in 1905 and 1906. They emphasized a vein of exaltation of the historical past of Spain that would, from then on, be usual in his work.
In these books he showed a remarkable command of language and his gift for versification.
Antonio de Zayas hated foreignizing and decadent modernism for patriotic, moral and religious reasons. His last publications were Plus Ultra (Ultra Plus) (1924), Epinicios, segunda serie ((Triumphant hymns), second series) (1926) and Ante el altar y en la lid (Before the altar and in the fray) (1942).
He died of arteriosclerosis in Malaga in 1945.
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His first book, Poesías (Poems) (1892), of nineteenth century rhetoric and outdated Romanticism, was succeeded by Joyeles bizantinos (Byzantine jewels) (1902)- although the book is less decadent than its title. From 1907, in a very declared and sharp form, Antonio de Zayas abandoned any modernist fickleness and dedicated himself to defending what he would call the country tradition, with a rhetoric that got increasingly old.