Complex sentence: En su época, apenas si había certamen, justa o solemnidad literaria a... The son of a Jew from Murcia, he was noted as an editor and commentator of Spanish popular poetry.
Split into simpler sentences: En su época, apenas si había certamen, justa o solemnidad literaria a... the son of a Jew from Murcia. He was noted as an editor and commentator of Spanish popular poetry.