Julio Alarcón y Meléndez [SEP] date of death
Julio Alarcón y Meléndez
Julio Alarcón y Meléndez (1843–1924) was a Spanish priest, musician, poet and writer.
List of works.
- Collection of poems for youth.
- Album of humor, or collection of stories, anecdotes, fables, jokes, dicharachos ... 1865.
- The family album. (1865–1867 ). Literary weekly.
- Loyalty to the test. 1886. The Glass.
- The Azar. 1887 . Drama.
- Guide particular traveler through all known and
next to Fernán Caballero, de Pereda, , Julio Alarcón y Meléndez, Juan Valera and padre Coloma; critics dubbed him "mamarracho literario". 
Limited popularity of Polo's works hardly outlived their author. Even in the early 20th century he was only marginally mentioned by historians of Spanish literature; later on he went into oblivion, though was occasionally acknowledged in anthologies. Today he is missing even in fairly detailed studies written either by Spanish of foreign scholars, though mentioned by some dictionaries. He is usually situated in-