The Spanish Ballad in the Golden Age

by Nigel Griffin

Collections of traditional Spanish ballads were made in the early seventeenth century; some recorded directly from singers, others reworked by educated poets. So popular were these that Court poets composed ballads of their own. Most Spanish poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries circulated in manuscript among a small coterie of wits and fellow poets, and it often contains references to contemporary events and people, sideswipes at institutions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1855661721
• ISBN13: 9781855661721
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Tamesis Books
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"