In 1870 Ramón Baldorioty de Castro was elected Puerto Rican Deputy to the Spanish Cortes.
Gautier Benítez lived at a time in which no literary renewal was possible, and like all other Puerto Rican poets of that period followed the school of Nuñez de Arce.
José de Diego, author of Pomarrosas and Cantos de Rebeldía, and Luis Muñoz Rivera, author of Tropicales, may be said to close this era of the Island's literary and intellectual life.
Hijo de la poetisa Alejandrina Benítez deGautier, pasó dos años en la Academia Militar de Toledo (España), donde se graduó de subteniente de Infantería, pero la añoranza de su país le hizo abandonar sus estudios.
De todos modos, la estancia en España produjo en su alma profunda impresión.
Es el más ilustre posromántico de su país y llega a alturas de verdadera exaltación romántica en cantos como el ya mencionado "A Puerto Rico" y en el poema "La barca".
An apt pupil, Alejandrina in turn managed to get one of her stories included in the island's first printed collection of literary works by local writers, the Aguinaldo Puertorriqueño, published in San Juan in 1843.
Alejandrina also became, years later, mother, teacher and role model to the best loved poet of that century, José Gautier Benítez (1851-1880).
Lola is noted for having cut her hair and dressed in manly costume to be able to attend political revolutionary meetings, bringing repression and exile upon herself; in spite of which her works remain an important part of literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Maria Bibiana Benitez (December 10, 1783 – April 18, 1873) born in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, was Puerto Rico's first known poetess and one of its first playwrights.
Her father Jose Benitez, was a lieutenant in the Spanish Army who on April 28, 1797 defended Puntilla against an English invasion and who was married to Juana Bautista Benitez.
In 1820, her brother Pedro Jose Benotez and his wife died and she took it upon herself to raise her orphaned niece AlejandrinaBenitezdeGautier, who would in the future become a renowned poetess herself.
Carlos Manuel was thereby strongly influenced by his grandmother, Alejandrina Esterás, a deeply devout and holy woman.
When he graduated from eighth grade in 1932, he was first in his class and won a medal for his Religion.
In Río Piedras, where brother Pepe and sister Haydée were already UPR faculty members, Carlos was able to achieve his ardent desire to make Christ known, among professors and students.
Mayagüez (mah-yah-GWES) was founded in 1760 by don Faustino Martínez de Matos, Juan de Silva and Juan de Aponte.
In this same year, don José de González y Echevarría presented a proposal for the Urban Railroad of the Mayagüez Villa.
The wide cross represents Christianity brought to the New World by Cristopher Columbus, who signed his documents with the phrase and the sign of Christ Ferens, which means: "He who has Christ." The blue and white waves in third to fourth quarter recalls the Shield granted to Columbus by the Catholic Kings.
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José Gautier Benítez : Sirchin(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
He was mostly influenced by the exponents of the Romantic poetry of the 19th century.
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After Arroyo's visit, the series hosted the Puerto Rican writer, winner of the Letras de Oro Prize and the Juan Rulfo Prize, and author of the acclaimed Sirena Selena, Mayra Santos-Febres.
