Selected Poems of Jacint Verdaguer

ISBN-13: 9780226853000 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 272 str.

Jacint Verdaguer; Jacinto Verdaguer; Ronald Puppo

Opis

Regarded as one of Europe s most important poets of the late nineteenth century, Jacint Verdaguer (1845 1902) provided the modern poetic foundations for the reemergence of Catalan literature after three centuries of the language s suppression by Spain s absolutist monarchs. Verdaguer s popular epic, civil, and religious verse poeticized the unique status of Catalonian tradition, progress, and history in the Romantic framework of European nation-building.
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Selected Poems" is the first book-length translation of Verdaguer s works into English. Ronald Puppo offers readable and faithful verse adaptations of poetry from all periods of the poet-priest s life, from his days as a seminary student and farmhand to his journeys as a ship s chaplain and eventual spiritual crisis. These adroit translations will recover Verdaguer as a major figure in the modern literary tradition of the West, restoring him to the pantheon of world letters."