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The romance (the term is Spanish, and is pronounced accordingly: Spanish pronunciation:) is a metrical form used in Spanish poetry. [1] It consists of an indefinite series ( tirada ) of verses, in which the even-numbered lines have a near-rhyme ( assonance ) and the odd lines are unrhymed.
Simple Verses (Spanish: Versos sencillos) is a poetry collection by Cuban writer and independence hero José Martí. Published in October 1891, it was the last of Martí's works to be printed before his death in 1895. [1] Originally written in Spanish, it has been translated into over ten languages. [2]
Lyric poetry in the Middle Ages can be divided into three groups: the jarchas, the popular poems originating from folk-songs sung by commoners, and the courtly poetry of the nobles. Alfonso X of Castile fits into the third group with his series of three hundred poems, written in Galician: Las cantigas de Santa María.
The Romantic Dogs (Los perros románticos in Spanish) is a collection of poems by the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño.It was first published in 1994, then expanded in 2000. The bilingual edition, with English translations by Laura Healy, was published by New Directions in 200
It has been suggested that the poem, which is written in Old Spanish, is an example of the learned poetry that was cultivated in the monasteries and other centers of erudition. However, Per Abbad puts the date 1207 after his name and current thinking is that his claim to have written the work has simply been copied along with the text of an ...
"'The Heights of Macchu Picchu" (Las Alturas de Macchu Picchu) is Canto II of the Canto General.The twelve poems that comprise this section of the epic work have been translated into English regularly since even before its initial publication in Spanish in 1950, beginning with a 1948 translation by Hoffman Reynolds Hays [1] in The Tiger's Eye, a journal of arts and literature published out of ...
Andalusian Lyric poetry and Old Spanish Love Songs (1976) (includes translations of some of the medieval anthology of love poems, compiled by Ibn Sana al-Mulk, the Dar al-tiraz). Emilio Garcia Gomez. (Ed.) In Praise of Boys: Moorish Poems from Al-Andalus (1975). F. J. Gea Izquierdo. Antología esencial de la poesía española, Independently ...
The copla is a poetic form of four verses found in many Spanish popular songs as well as in Spanish language literature. [1] There is a related musical genre of the same name. The form is also found widely in Hispanic America. The name derives from the Latin copula ("link" or "union").