Renaissance and Baroque Poetry of Spain: With English Prose Translations

by Elias L. Rivers

PUBLISHED IN SPANISH. This volume, while including many of the usual anthology pieces from Spanish poetry, provides a sampling of the major genres of poetry associated with Spain's older literary traditions, omitting only the classical epic. In addition to English prose translations, this collection also includes a seventeen-page introduction intended to define the genres and to indicate briefly the lines along which they developed. Includes selections from these poets of the Juan Boscan, Cristobal de Castillejo, Garcilaso de la Vega, Gutierre de Cetina, Francisco de la Torre, Hernando de Acuna, Fray Luis de Leon, Baltasar del Alcazar, Fernando de Herrera, Francisco de Aldana, and San Juan de la Cruz. Includes selections from these Baroque Lupercio & Bartolome L. de Argensola, Luis de Gongora, Lope de Vega, Juan de Arguijo, Francisco de Medrano, Rodrigo Caro, Andres Fernandez de Andrada, Pedro Espinosa, Francisco de Quevedo, Francisco de Rioja, Esteban Manuel de Villegas, and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. Titles of related interest from Waveland Barrett, Five Centuries of Spanish From the Cid through the Golden Age (ISBN 9781577663195); Gasta, La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades, Annotated Critical Edition (ISBN 9781478605713); Johnson, Don The Quest for Modern Fiction (ISBN 9781577661481); King-Suñer, Gramática españ Análisis y práctica, Third Edition (ISBN 9781478635482); Martel-Alpern, Diez Comedias del Siglo de Oro, Second Edition (ISBN 9780881331196); and Patt-Nozick, Spanish Literature 1700 1900 (ISBN 9780881334548).

Genres: Poetry, Spanish Literature

Paperback

First published January 1, 1972

About the author

North American hispanist who had a long and fruitful teaching and research career focused mainly on Spanish poetry of the Golden Age.

Reviews

[Catherine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Notes would have been preferable to translations but hey the poems are pretty good once you figure out how the hell to read them. It was worth muddling through.

[DeLys · Rating 4 out of 5]

Poetry is not my favorite genre to read, but I have enjoyed teaching the selections in this anthology. It gives students a real sense of the development of lyric poetry during these two key literary periods. The English prose translations are quite helpful for obscure vocabulary and complicated syntax.

[Michael Wolf · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the bible of my understanding about baroque literature from Spain. The development of my higher level Spanish came from a years wroth of study from this solitary compilation. Brutal, but I still have the scars of understanding to vindicate it's worth.