The Golden Age: Poems of the Spanish Renaissance
The Spanish Renaissance-a period of glory that endured from the late fifteenth through the seventeenth century-comes to life in its greatest poems. With passionate fervor and a stylistic brilliance, renowned translator Edith Grossman presents here the great masters of Spanish poetry, including Jorge Manrique, Garcilaso de la Vega, Luis de Gongora, and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, the nun whose haunting poetry embodied the voice of Mexico.
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"Edith Grossman again demonstrates that she indeed is the Glenn Gould of translators."—Harold BloomLibrary JournalAddressing what she calls "the stunning lack of familiarity in the English-speaking world" with the poetry of the Spanish Renaissance, Grossman, translator of Cervantes and Gabriel Garc a M rquez, offers a compact anthology of 40 shorter poems by eight 15th- and 16th-century poets. Combining artistic magnificence with the savagery of its religious persecution, the Spanish golden age produced poetry spanning a wide gamut of emotions and conceptualizations. Grossman's selections range from the filial piety of Jorge Manrique and the mysticism of San Juan de la Cruz to the humor of Lope de Vega. Also featured are sonnets by Mexican nun Sor Juana In s de la Cruz, who eventually was persuaded to repent of her erudition and dispose of her 4000-book library. Not included is Juan Boscan, who taught his friend Garcilaso (the better poet, who is included) the vogue of Italian versification and collected and preserved his friend's works after he was killed in battle. Unencumbered by archaisms, Grossman's English is modern but not jarringly so. She has assembled a superb introduction to the poetic riches of the period for all libraries. Jack Shreve, Allegany Coll. of Maryland, Cumberland Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
Verses written on the death of his father5Sonnet I43Sonnet X45Sonnet XXIII47Sonnet XXIX49Song V51Eclogue I65Stanza : upon leaving prison105Ode III (to Francisco Salinas)107Ode VIII : quiet night113Ode XIX : on the ascension121Song II : the dark night129Song III : flame of living love133Sonnet LXXXII (amorous)139Sonnet CLXV141Sonnet CLXVI143Ballad XLIX (amorous)145Lyric XIX (sacred)151Sacred rhymes : I155Instant sonnet161Human rhymes : Sonnet LXI163Various songs : folk song VII165Metaphysical poems 2173Metaphysical poems 3175Metaphysical poems 6177Metaphysical poems 8179Amorous poems181Psalm XVII183Psalm XVIII185Psalm XIX187Sonnet 145193Sonnet 147195Sonnet 148197Sonnet 164199Sonnet 165201
\ Library JournalAddressing what she calls "the stunning lack of familiarity in the English-speaking world" with the poetry of the Spanish Renaissance, Grossman, translator of Cervantes and Gabriel Garc a M rquez, offers a compact anthology of 40 shorter poems by eight 15th- and 16th-century poets. Combining artistic magnificence with the savagery of its religious persecution, the Spanish golden age produced poetry spanning a wide gamut of emotions and conceptualizations. Grossman's selections range from the filial piety of Jorge Manrique and the mysticism of San Juan de la Cruz to the humor of Lope de Vega. Also featured are sonnets by Mexican nun Sor Juana In s de la Cruz, who eventually was persuaded to repent of her erudition and dispose of her 4000-book library. Not included is Juan Boscan, who taught his friend Garcilaso (the better poet, who is included) the vogue of Italian versification and collected and preserved his friend's works after he was killed in battle. Unencumbered by archaisms, Grossman's English is modern but not jarringly so. She has assembled a superb introduction to the poetic riches of the period for all libraries. Jack Shreve, Allegany Coll. of Maryland, Cumberland Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.\ \
