The poet worked for the government as a censor
His position working for the government was a censor in the 19th century?
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El poeta trabajó para el gobierno como un censor
This is what the machine translator says. It looks pretty straightforward. Try it on the sentence in your description.
Are you trying to translate a Spanish sentence to English? Depending on what the Spanish sentence is, it may actually mean something more like:
He functioned as a critic of the government during the 19th century.
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