Agustín Durán

Agustín Durán (born Oct. 14, 1793, Madrid, Spain—died Dec. 1, 1862, Madrid) was a Spanish literary critic, bibliographer, librarian, writer, and editor who was one of the major opponents of Neoclassicism and a major theoretician of Spanish Romanticism. The son of a court physician, Durán was sent to the seminary at Vergara, studied at the University of Seville, and was admitted to the bar at Valladolid. He held a post in the education department at...