Modern Spanish Lyrics

This is largely a harking back to primitive conditions, for in the oldest Castilian narrative verse the rule of "counted syllables" apparently did not prevail. Cf. the _Cantar d...

In the year 1793 there had been formed in Seville by a group of young writers an Academia de Letras Humanas to foster the cultivation of letters. The members of this academy wer...

=1.--Abenámar= is one of a very few _romances_ which are supposed to have their origin in Moorish popular poetry. The Christian king referred to is Juan II, who defeated the Moo...

After Olmedo, the commanding figure among the classical poets of Peru is Felipe Pardo y Aliaga (1806-1868). Pardo was educated in Spain, where he studied with Alberto Lista. Fro...

The superficial nature of this literature is exhibited in the controversy excited by the efforts of Boscán and Garcilaso to substitute Italian forms for the older Spanish ones....

=46.=--Manuel José Quintana (1772-1857) was born in Madrid. He went to school in Cordova and later studied law at Salamanca. He fled from Madrid upon the coming of the French. I...

Other poets of the early period of independence are: the literary critic, Juan María Gutiérrez (1809-1878), one-time rector of the University of Buenos Aires and editor of an an...

The present volume aims to furnish American students of Spanish with a convenient selection of the Castilian lyrics best adapted to class reading. It was the intention of the ed...

The Cuban poet Don José María Heredia (1803-1839) is better known in Europe and in the United States than Bello and Olmedo, since his poems are universal in their appeal. He is...

The 11-syllable line may be used alone. Cf. the sonnets of Lope de Vega (p. 14) and Calderón (p. 18), the _Epístola satírica_ of Quevedo (p. 15), the blank verse of Jovellanos (...

Este recuerdo á mi pesar me viene... 5 Nada ¡oh Niágara! falta á tu destino, Ni otra corona que el agreste pino Á tu terrible majestad conviene. La palma y mirto y delicada rosa...

Del sol llevaba la lumbre, Y la alegría del alba, 5 En sus celestiales ojos La hermosísima Rosana, Una noche que á los fuegos Salió la fiesta de Pascua Para abrasar todo el vall...

(2) Alternate assonance may be employed with lines of any length. With 11-syllable lines the verse is called _romance heroico_ or _real_. Lines of seven syllables make _versos a...

Hoy á vuestros sepulcros hace sombra La bandera del iris, enlazada Á la de los castillos y leones; 10 Que el odio no es eterno En los pobres humanos corazones; Y llegó el día en...

10 ¡Con qué profundo amor, niño inocente, Prosternaba mi frente En las losas del templo sacrosanto! Llenábase mi joven fantasía De luz, de poesía, 15 De mudo asombro, de terribl...

Las vanidades del mundo Renunció allí mismo Inés, 5 Y espantado de sí propio Diego Martínez también. Los escribanos temblando Dieron de esta escena fe, Firmando como testigos 10...

15 Crees que la vida es incendio, Que el progreso es erupción, Que en donde pones la bala El porvenir pones. page 212 No. Los Estados Unidos son potentes y grandes. Cuando ellos...

Entre pardos nubarrones 20 Pasando la blanca luna, Con resplandor fugitivo, page 87 La baja tierra no alumbra. La brisa con frescas alas Juguetona no murmura, Y las veletas no g...

Estaba Mirta bella Cierta noche formando en su aposento, Con gracioso talento, Una tierna canción, y porque en ella 15 Satisfacer á Delio meditaba, Que de su fe dudaba, Con vehe...

Del español Condestable 5 Latió con orgullo el pecho, Ufano de la entereza De su esclarecido deudo. Y aunque advertido procura Disimular cual discreto, 10 Á su noble rostro asom...

Poetry in Venezuela begins with Bello, for the works of his predecessors had little merit. Andrés Bello (1781-1865) was the most consummate master of poetic diction among Spanis...