The Cambridge Introduction to Spanish Poetry: Spain and Spanish America

by D. Gareth Walters

Book Overview

The Cambridge Introduction to Spanish Poetry comprises an extended survey of poetry written in Spanish from the Middle Ages to the present day, including both Iberian and Latin American writing. This volume offers a non-chronological approach to the subject in order to highlight the continuity and persistence of genres and forms (epic, ballad, sonnet) and of themes and motifs (love, religious and moral poetry, satirical and pure poetry). It also supplies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521791227
• ISBN13: 9780521791229
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"