The Spanish golden age sonnet / John Rutherford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rutherford, John, author.

Series:

Iberian and Latin American studies.

Iberian and Latin American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sonnets, Spanish--15th and 16th centuries.

Sonnets, Spanish.

Spain--History--711-1516.

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2016.

Summary:

The sonnets written during the Spanish Golden Age of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are among the finest poems written in the Spanish language. This book presents over one hundred of the best and most representative sonnets of that period, together with translations into English sonnets and detailed critical commentaries. Garcilaso de la Vega, Góngora and Quevedo receive particular attention, but other poets such as Aldana, Lope de Vega and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz are also well represented. A substantial introduction provides accounts of the sonnet genre, of the historical and literary background, and of the problems faced by the translator of sonnets. The aim of this volume is to provide semantically accurate translations that bring the original sonnets to life in modern English as true sonnets: not just aids to the comprehension of the originals but also lively and enjoyable poems in their own right.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 26, 2016).

ISBN:

9781783168989

1783168986