| Selected Poems Contributor(s): Herrera, Fernando De (Author), Ingelmo, Luis (Translator), Smith, Michael (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1848613342 ISBN-13: 9781848613348 Publisher: Shearsman Books OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - Spanish & Portuguese |
| Dewey: 861.3 |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.43 lbs) 146 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Perhaps the greatest of Spain's Renaissance poets, Fernando de Herrera (1534-97), a native of Seville, was the writer who took on board the experiments with Italian forms carried out by his predecessors Juan Bosc n and Garcilaso de la Vega (whose work he edited and annotated), and made of them a native style. As it was with many other poets elsewhere-such as Sir Thomas Wyatt in England-the example of Petrarch, both directly, and as mediated by Garcilaso, was crucial in the development of Herrera's elegant vernacular verse in Spanish. With Garcilaso, Bosc n and Herrera, Spanish poetry takes wing. The generation that followed Herrera was to be the greatest literary flowering in Spanish history. |