Selected poems of Garcilaso de la Vega : a bilingual edition / edited and translated by John Dent-Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vega, Garcilaso de la, 1503-1536.

Contributor:

Dent-Young, John.

Standardized Title:

Poems. English & Spanish. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish poetry--Classical period, 1500-1700.

Spanish poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Garcilaso de la Vega (ca. 1501-36), a Castilian nobleman and soldier at the court of Charles V, lived a short but glamorous life. As the first poet to make the Italian Renaissance lyric style at home in Spanish, he is credited with beginning the golden age of Spanish poetry. Known for his sonnets and pastorals, gracefully depicting beauty and love while soberly accepting their passing, he is shown here also as a calm student of love's psychology and a critic of the savagery of war. This bilingual volume is the first in nearly two hundred years to fully represent Garc

Contents:

Sonnets. Introduction

I cuando me paro a contemplar mi estado = When i stop to view my situation . . .

Escrito esta en mi alma vuestro gesto = Your countenance is written in my soul . . .

[MARC+96]Oh dulces prendas, por mi mal halladas = O sweet mementoes, unfortunately found . . .

Hermosas ninfas, que en el rio metidas = Slender nymphs who dwell within the river . . .

A Dafne ya los brazos le crecian = Daphne's arms were growing . . . Pensando que el camino iba derecho = Thinking that the road i took was straight . . .

En tanto que de rosa y azucena = While colors of the lily and the rose . . .

[MARC+96]Oh hado esecutivo en mis dolores = O fate, so active to promote my troubles . . .

Sospechas, que en mi triste fantasia = Suspicion, how you occupy my sad . . .

Estoy contino en lagrimas banado = I am continually half drowned in tears . . .

Mario, el ingrato amor, como testigo = Mario, love the ingrate having observed . . .

Boscan, las armas y el furor de marte = Arms, boscan, and the fury of rampant Mars . . .

Mi lengua va por do el dolor la guia = My tongue simply follows where pain leads . . .

Songs. Introduction

Con un manso ruido = With the gentle lapping . . .

Si de mi baja lira = If the sound of my simple . . .

Elegies and epistle to Boscan. Introduction

I aunque este. grave caso haya tocado = Although this dread event has touched my soul . . .

Aqui, Boscan, donde del buen troyano = Here, Boscan, where the great Mantuan locates . . .

Epistle senor Boscan, quien tanto gusto tiene = Senor Boscan, for one who takes such pleasure . . .

Eclogues. Introduction

I el dulce lamenter de dos pastores = Of two shepherds' melodious laments . . .

From ii en medio del invierno esta templada = Even in the depths of winter, the water . . .

Aquella voluntad honesta y pura = That pure and honorable sense of duty . . .

Appendix A: two coplas

Appendix B: letter (as a prologue to Boscan's translation of Castiglione's The book of the courtier)

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612426308

9781282426306

1282426303

9780226141893

0226141896

OCLC:

521946445