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...

Catalonia's towering Romantic poet and rebel priest, Jacint Verdaguer (1845-1902), delves deep into the Catalan imaginary in his foundational long poem Mount Canigo (1886), recounting the historical and legendary mix, both tragic and triumphant, of the medieval origins of modern Catalonia. The collision between duty and love is mirrored by the symbolic conflict between, on the one hand, a powerful folk mythology rooted in the natural geography and, on the other, the widely institutionalized universalism of Christianity concomitant to the reconquest of the Iberian peninsula. Rich in lyrical...

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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...