Fifteen Poets of the Aztec World

by Miguel León-Portilla

Book Overview

Who were the poets of Mexico in the days of Aztec splendor? What were the poems of a culture so different from our own? In this first English-language translation of a significant corpus of Nahuatl poetry into English, an expansion of his classic Trece poetas del mundo azteca, Miguel Le n-Portilla was assisted in his rethinking, augmenting, and rewriting in English by Grace Lobanov. Biographies of fifteen composers of Nahuatl verse and analyses of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806132914
• ISBN13: 9780806132914
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"