Fernando Villalón-Daoíz y Halcón, Count of 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.

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 () was an influential group of poets that arose in Spain, 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. Their first form ...

, 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