[129.—19.] las que... son, what is...
[131.—15-16.] la que... agonía = la lenta agonía que sufristeis...
[133.]—Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio (1817-1901) was born in Navia (Asturias). He studied medicine but soon turned to poetry and politics. A pronounced conservative, he won favor with the government and received appointment to several important offices including that of governor of Alicante and Valencia.
Cf. [Introduction], p. xli; Juan Valera, Obras poéticas de Campoamor, in Estudios críticos sobre literatura, Seville, 1884; Peseux-Richard, in the Revue hispanique, I, 236 f.; Blanco García, II, Cap. V. For his works, see Doloras y cantares, 16th ed., Madrid, 1882; Los pequeños poemas, Madrid, 1882-1883; Poética, 1883; El drama universal, 3d ed., Madrid, 1873; El licenciado Torralba, Madrid, 1888; Obras escogidas, Leipzig, 1885-1886; Obras completas, 8 vols., Madrid, 1901-03.
[135.—3.] se va y se viene y se está: note the use of se in the sense of people, or an indefinite we.
[5.] Y... procura = y si tu afecto no procura volver.
[136.—18.] See note, p. 3, l. 7.
[137.]—Valladolid was the birthplace of Gaspar Núñez de Arce (1834-1903). When a child, he removed with his family to Toledo. At the age of nineteen years he entered upon a journalistic career in Madrid. As a member of the Progresista party, Núñez de Arce was appointed Civil Governor of Barcelona, and afterward he became a cabinet minister.
Cf. [Introduction], p. xlii; Menéndez y Pelayo's essay in Estudios de crítica literaria, 1884; Juan Valera's essay on the Gritos del combate, Revista europea, 1875, no. 60; Blanco García, Cap. XVIII; José del Castillo, Núñez de Arce, Apuntes para su biografía, Madrid, 1904. For his works, see Gritos del combate, 8th ed., 1891; Obras dramáticas, Madrid, 1879. Most of his longer poems are in separate pamphlets, published by M. Murillo and Fernando Fe, Madrid, 1895-1904.
[137.]—Tristezas shows unmistakably the influence of the French poet Alfred de Musset, and especially perhaps of his Rolla and Confession d'un enfant du siècle.