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Los Loores de nuestra sennora, de Gonzalo de Berceo, dentro de la llamada literatura hagiográfica medieval, tratan sobre la Virgen, la misa y la vida de algunos santos, como Santo Domingo de Silos, San Millán, San Lorenzo, Santa Oria, además de su famoso poema de Alejandro Magno, el Duelo de la Virgen María y el de los Loores de Nuestra Señora. Bercero tenido una marcada influencia en la literatura universal y se le considera el padre del verso...
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Karl Kirchwey is professor of the arts and director of the Creative Writing Program at Bryn Mawr College, and, from 2010-2013, the Andrew Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy in Rome. For many years he was director of the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center in New York City. His six books of poetry include The Happiness of This World and Mount Lebanon.
The first complete English edition of Verlaine's important first book of poems
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63) Poemas
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Los Poemas de José Zorrilla son la máxima expresión de la corriente romántica española. El genio de Zorrilla como poeta de su tiempo se advierte en la fluidez y musicalidad de sus versos y en sus temas inspirados en leyendas medievales y de la época imperial de corte popular. Destacó más en la épica, con largos poemas narrativos como el conocidísimo A buen juez mejor testigo inspirado en la leyenda toledana del Cristo de la Vega.
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64) Four Plays
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With an Introduction by Ellen Rees, Centre for Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo. The plays of Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) are critically acclaimed throughout the world. The father of modern drama, Ibsen broke with theatrical conventions and created a more realistic form of drama that used the stage as a forum for debating social problems, notably the rights of the individual, and the damaging effects of orthodoxy. This collection...
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Based on the classic novel by Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary tells the tale of Emma Bovary, who is romantic by nature, and believes herself the equal of the heroines depicted in the romantic novels she reads. When she moves to a rural town in France, she finds herself utterly bored by country and small-town life. Although her husband is a good man, Emma has no respect for him. Eventually she takes a lover, and wants him to give up everything for...
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What makes an artist? What forces and inklings drive a young man or woman to make their own journey, and where does it begin? In imaginary childhood games? In chance encounters? At the sensitive core of the human heart?To answer these and other questions, award-winning author Rory MacLean met more than one hundred working German artists. He traced how childhood obsessions or a spark of inspiration developed in the imagination. He walked beside a platinum...
67) Arte de trovar
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El Arte de trovar (1433) de don Enrique de Villena es una adaptación al castellano de las poéticas trovadorescas. Dedicado al marqués de Santillana, en él se conjugan ciertas observaciones sobre la poesía, muy influidas por la tradición trovadoresca provenzal y catalana, con disquisiciones más lingüísticas.
En la primera se hace un breve repaso de las Artes poéticas trovadorescas y se describen con delectación el gobierno y desarrollo de...
68) Paul Klee
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Paul Klee's philosophy of art is perhaps best summed up by his own statement: "A drawing is simply a line going for a walk." As one of the great avant garde artists of the 20th century, Swiss-born Klee was swept along with the changing moods and philosophies of the time. Klee did not readily fit into a particular artistic category. He used many styles and techniques, always exploring the different variations that each media opened up to him. An important...
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Secession / Insecession is a homage to the acts of reading, writing and translating poetry. In it, Chus Pato's Galician biopoetics of poet and nation, Secession – translated by Erín Moure – joins Moure's Canadian translational biopoetics, Insecession. To Pato, the poem is an insurrection against normalized language; to Moure, translation itself disrupts and reforms poetics and the possibility of the poem. In solidarity with Pato, Moure echoes...
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A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2020. With The Barbarians Arrive Today, Evan Jones has produced the classic English Cavafy for our age. Expertly translated from Modern Greek, this edition presents Cavafy's finest poems, short creative prose and autobiographical writings, offering unique insights into his life's work. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, Constantine Petrou Cavafy (1863-1933) was a minor civil servant who self-published and distributed...
71) Sonetos
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El soneto nació en Italia entre 1230 y 1240. Íñigo López de Mendoza, el Marqués de Santillana, lo introdujo en la península ibérica y, así, en la lengua castellana. Casi un siglo después Juan Boscán lo recupera, gracias a su amigo Navaggiero, un italiano que se dio cuenta de la afinidad entre su idioma materno y el castellano. Boscán, entonces, adapta definitivamente el soneto en nuestra lengua, con sencillez y a la vez elevación del lenguaje....
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This is a dramatic reconstruction about the politics of survival in the French revolution. It was a conflict that threatened to devour its own children. The clash came about against the background of implementing the Rights of Man and the Citizen when the struggle to formulate the destiny of the French people, Europe and the rest of the world became a matter of intellectual debate and urgent action. This could only be achieved through a battle of...
73) Poemas
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Los Poemas de Ramón del Valle-Inclán son una parte esencial de su obra. Empezó escribiendo poesía. En 1888, a los veintidós años, mientras estudiaba Derecho en Santiago Compostela, la revista estudiantil Café con gotas publicó un poema suyo titulado "Molinares".
En el fondo, casi todas las prosas de Valle-Inclán son de poéticas. Ramón del Valle-Inclán nunca dejó de escribir poesía. Además, siempre introdujo poemas entre los diálogos...
74) Albrecht Dürer
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Albrecht Dürer, who lived from 1471 to 1528, worked during the time of Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation. Typical of his era, religion was the subject of most of his creative work. We know more about Dürer than many artists of his day, thanks to his proclivity with the pen as well as with his paintbrush. He was also widely known across Europe during his lifetime because much of his work was disseminated by printing. Dürer left a considerable...
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A Cycle of Love Songs
"Dappled woodland light,
Spring well chill and bright,
Eyes like stars at night,
Open knees so white.
Four things death itself won't cover,
Unforgettable forever."
In 1917, while reading his local newspaper, the Czech composer Leos Janacek discovered the poems that he was to set to music in his song cycle Diary of One Who Vanished. Written by Ozef Kalda and published anonymously, they tell the story of a farmer's boy who abandons...
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Very early in life, at the age of 14, the author entered the seminary to study for the priesthood. Thus an adventure began that profoundly transformed his life. However, it was only after many years that a full awareness of this experience was realized, and its impact led to the writing of this poetry. The author describes a revealing, passionate spiritual development as he learned about divine things, accepted them and strived to advance in stages...
77) Sonetos
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Garcilaso de la Vega escribió la mayoría de sus Sonetos en la década de 1520, durante el periodo en que su obra deja notar el influjo de Petrarca y de los poetas del Renacimiento italiano.
En sus Sonetos Garcilaso se ocupa de temas mundanos como la belleza y el amor al tiempo que admite su carácter efímero. Pero además de rescatar los tópicos de la poesía clásica latina, con los sonetos el poeta adaptó los versos de once sílabas a la lengua...
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Charles Desnoyer (1806-1858) and Léon Beauvallet (1828-1885) were French playwrights of the mid-nineteenth century. THE KING OF ROME focuses on the Emperor Napoleon's only son, the Duke of Reichstadt, who was held a captive by his maternal grandfather, the Emperor of Austria. Fearing that he would emulate his father or be used by a Napoleonic conspiracy to capture the French throne, the Duke was kept in ignorance of his father's identity, as well...
79) Poemas
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La presente colección de Poemas de Francisco de Rioja incluye composiciones poéticas que representan el profundo conocimiento y la habilidad literaria de Francisco de Rioja, un destacado poeta y erudito del Barroco Sevillano. Su obra es un reflejo del riqueza cultural e intelectual de la Sevilla del siglo XVI, una ciudad que en ese momento era un importante centro de las artes y las letras en España.
Francisco de Rioja estuvo muy vinculado con...
80) Christine's Man
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Every academic will recognise the plight of Bob Morgan, a young lecturer at a UK polytechnic in the early 1980s. The work is rewarding, but there are stresses in his job, the hours are long and his Head of Department is incompetent and possibly dishonest. Christine, his closest friend, contributes to his difficulties, and he also longs to be ignored by an elderly neighbour, his mother, a former girl-friend, one of his students, and a police sergeant...