MARAGALL I GORINA, JOAN. - Catalan poet, b. in Barcellona on 10 Oct. 1860, d. there on 20 Dec. 1911. He is one of the exponents of the Catalan revival.
The tragedy Nausicaa is a product of his classical culture; an admirer of Goethe, in the poem El Conte Arnau, derived from an old legend, he recalls the Faust in certain respects. Conceiving poetry romantically as a divi barbosseig (“divine stammering”), he sought to express himself in an essential form, though not without concessions to his musical impulse and to popular forms (La Sardana). In the Cant espiritual he confesses to God his fear of death and his attachment to the earthly world; later his religious thought became more heartfelt and profound: his is the Christian invocation: “sia'm la mort una major naixenca.”