{\b Joseph Blanco White}.

{\b Date of Birth}.: 1775

{\b Date of Death}.: 1841 (exact dates uncertain)

{\b Works}.

Letters from Spain by Don Leucadio D oblado (1822), Second Travels of an Irish 
Gentleman in Search of Religion (1833), Observations on Heresy and Orthodoxy 
(1835), Night and Death (1828), Life of the Reverend Joseph Blanco White (1845).

{\b Featured Works}.

'To Night'.

{\b General Comment}.

Blanco White was a Seville born poet and journalist. In 1793 whilst still in 
Spain he became associated with a group of writers and formed a movement of 
literary reform titled 'Academia de letres humanas'. White had a strong 
religious background and having been bought up a Roman Catholic he became 
ordained as a priest in 1800. However, he became increasingly sceptical about 
his religion and eventually turned towards liberalism. In 1810 White left his 
Spanish home for England. On arrival he founded the journal El Espanol in 
order to protest against Spanish colonialism. He was educated in Oxford and 
eventually settled in Liverpool in the 1830's. Blanco White's first book 
Letters from Spain by Don Leucadio D oblado, established his reputation in 
Britain and he soon became closely associated with other literary figures such 
as Lord Holland and J.S Mill. Whites poetry was influenced by Quintana and his 
poem Night and Death was declared by Coleridge to be the finest sonnet in the 
English language.