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Selected Poems of Garcilaso de la Vega

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Garcilaso de la Vega (ca. 1501-36), a Castilian nobleman and soldier at the court of Charles V, lived a short but glamorous life. As the first poet to make the Italian Renaissance lyric style at home in Spanish, he is credited with beginning the golden age of Spanish poetry. Known for his sonnets and pastorals, gracefully depicting beauty and love while soberly accepting their passing, he is shown here also as a calm student of love's psychology and a critic of the savagery of war. This bilingual volume is the first in nearly two hundred years to fully represent Garc

Title Selected Poems of Garcilaso de la Vega : A Bilingual Edition / Garcilaso de la Vega.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Creation Date [2009]
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chronology -- Sonnets -- Songs -- Elegies and Epistle to Boscán -- Eclogues -- Appendix A: Two Coplas -- Appendix B: Letter (as a prologue to Boscán's translation of Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier) -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index of Titles and First Lines
Extent 1 online resource (250 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2009
National Library system number 997010705042305171
MARC RECORDS
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