Fernando Villalón Daoíz y Halcón, conde de Miraflores de los Ángeles (

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, 31 May 1881 -

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, 8 March 1930) was a Spanish poet and bull breeder. Fernando Villalón (Morón)

Life

He attended secondary school in

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, where he was a classmate of

Juan Ramón Jiménez Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón (; 23 December 1881 – 29 May 1958) was a Spanish poet, a prolific writer who received the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which in the Spanish language constitutes an example of high ...

. He mostly lived in

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and devoted himself to cattle-breeding and agriculture. He was also a compulsive but disorganised reader of cosmogenia, classic and modern poetry, bullfighting and

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. His friends, members of the

Generation of '27 The Generation of '27 ( es, Generación del 27) was an influential group of poets that arose in Spanish literary circles between 1923 and 1927, essentially out of a shared desire to experience and work with avant-garde forms of art and poetry. ...

, especially

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, admired his enormous love of life and generosity. He funded and edited the ''Papel de Aleluyas'', printed in

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and

from 1927 to 1928. His poetry is imaginative and sometimes anticipated

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. A street is named after him in the Huerta de la Salud district of Seville, along with a cultural foundation in the town of Morón de la Frontera

Works

*''Andalucía la Baja'' (Madrid, 1927) *''La Toriada'' (Málaga, 1928) *''Romances del Ochocientos'' (Málaga, 1929) *''Poesías completas'' (Madrid, 1944) {{DEFAULTSORT:Villalon 1881 births 1930 deaths Counts of Spain 20th-century Spanish poets