Joseph Blanco White

Joseph Blanco White (1775-1841), born José María Blanco y Crespo, was an Anglo-Spanish man of letters of an unstable creed, political thinker, theologian, and poet, born in Seville, of Irish parentage. His original family name, White, had been Hispanicized as Blanco. He was first ordained a priest, but left the Catholic Church, and took orders in the Church of England. He left the English, became a Unitarian, and settled to miscellaneous literary work. He left an autobiography which reveals an honest quest of light, but to the last in doubt. He lives in literature by a sonnet "Night and Death".

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