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José Zorrilla y Moral (1817–1893)
Zorrilla y Moral, José (thō-rēl’yä ē mō-räl’). A Spanish poet; born at Valladolid, Feb. 21, 1817; died at Madrid, Jan. 23, 1893. His first collection of verse appeared in 1837; and another, ‘Songs of the Troubadour: A Collection of Legends and Traditions’ (1840–41). Then followed a drama, ‘Don Juan Tenorio’ (1844), reminiscences of ‘Faust’; ‘Legend of the Cid’ (1880); and collections of shorter verse. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).