Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain
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- MODERN POETS AND POETRY OF SPAIN.
- PART I.
- I. GASPAR MELCHOR DE JOVELLANOS.
- JOVELLANOS.
- EPISTLE TO CEAN BERMUDEZ, ON THE VAIN DESIRES AND STUDIES OF MEN.
- TO GALATEA’S BIRD.
- TO ENARDA.—I.
- TO ENARDA.—II.
- II. TOMAS DE IRIARTE.
- TOMAS DE IRIARTE.
- EPISTLE TO DON DOMINGO DE IRIARTE, ON HIS TRAVELLING TO VARIOUS FOREIGN COURTS.
- FABLES.
- III. JUAN MELENDEZ VALDES.
- MELENDEZ VALDES.
- JUVENILITIES.
- THE TIMID LOVER.
- MY VILLAGE LIFE.
- REMEMBRANCES OF YOUTH.
- OF THE SCIENCES.
- THE DISDAINFUL SHEPHERDESS.
- IV. LEANDRO FERNANDEZ MORATIN.
- LEANDRO FERNANDEZ MORATIN.
- DEDICATION OF THE COMEDY OF THE MOGIGATA TO THE PRINCE OF THE PEACE.
- EPISTLE TO DON GASPAR DE JOVELLANOS, SENT FROM ROME.
- V. JUAN BAUTISTA DE ARRIAZA.
- JUAN BAUTISTA DE ARRIAZA.
- TEMPEST AND WAR, OR THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR. ODE.
- THE PARTING.
- VI. MANUEL JOSÈ QUINTANA.
- MANUEL JOSÈ QUINTANA.
- TO THE SPANISH EXPEDITION FOR THE PROMOTION OF VACCINATION IN AMERICA, UNDER DON FRANCISCO BALMIS.
- ON THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR.
- PART II.
- VII. FRANCISCO MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA.
- FRANCISCO MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA.
- REMEMBRANCE OF SPAIN, WRITTEN IN LONDON IN 1811.
- RETURN TO GRANADA, OCTOBER 27, 1831.
- EPISTLE TO THE DUQUE DE FRIAS, ON THE DEATH OF THE DUQUESA.
- ANACREONTIC.
- BACCHANALIAN.
- VIII. ANGEL DE SAAVEDRA, DUKE DE RIVAS.
- THE DUKE DE RIVAS.
- THE ALCAZAR OF SEVILLE.
- IX. MANUEL BRETON DE LOS HERREROS.
- MANUEL BRETON DE LOS HERREROS.
- SATIRICAL LETRILLIAS.—III.
- SATIRICAL LETRILLIAS.—IV.
- SATIRICAL LETRILLIAS.—VII.
- X. JOSÈ MARIA HEREDIA.
- JOSÈ MARIA HEREDIA.
- SONNET. DEDICATION OF THE SECOND EDITION OF HIS POEMS, TO HIS WIFE.
- TO HIS HORSE.
- THE SEASON OF THE NORTHERS.
- POESY, AN ODE.
- ODE TO NIGHT.
- XI. JOSÈ DE ESPRONCEDA.
- JOSÈ DE ESPRONCEDA.
- TO SPAIN, AN ELEGY. LONDON, 1829.
- THE CONDEMNED TO DIE.
- THE SONG OF THE PIRATE.
- TO HARIFA, IN AN ORGY.
- XII. JOSÈ ZORRILLA.
- JOSÈ ZORRILLA.
- THE CHRISTIAN LADY AND THE MOOR.
- ROMANCE. THE WAKING.
- ORIENTAL ROMANCE,—BOABDIL.
- THE CAPTIVE.
- THE TOWER OF MUNION.
- THE WARNING.
- MEDITATION.
- NOTES.
- 1. Page 3. “Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos.”
- 2. Page 3. “An able and distinguished writer,” &c.
- 3. Page 11. “Bermudez, his biographer.”
- 4. Page 16. “Merit of first bringing into favour.”
- 5. Page 18. “Epistle to Cean Bermudez.”
- 6. Page 30. “To Galatea’s Bird.”
- 7. Page 32. “To Enarda.—I.”
- 8. Page 33. “To Enarda.—II.”
- 9. Page 46. “Epistle to Domingo de Iriarte.”
- 10. Page 50. “But now the confines of,” &c.
- 11. Page 52. “Saying as Seneca has said of yore.”
- 12. Page 53. “Fables.”
- 13. Page 64. “Iglesias and Gonzalez.”
- 14. Page 69. “It was for his detractors,” &c.
- 15. Page 73. “The Duke de Frias.”
- 16. Page 76. “Best edition, that by Salvà.”
- 17. Page 77. “Juvenilities.”
- 18. Page 79. “The Timid Lover.”
- El Amante timido.
- 19. Page 81. “My Village Life.”
- 20. Page 95. “Merits of their national dramas.”
- 21. Page 104. “There, says his biographer,” &c.
- 22. Page 113. “Juan Bautista de Arriaza.”
- 23. Page 145. “Described by Humboldt.”
- 24. Page 145. “So popular a writer as Larra.”
- 25. Page 160. “From the proud castled poop,” &c.
- 26. Page 161. “Conquerors of winds and waves.”
- 27. Page 163. “And Alcalà, Churruca, also ye!”
- 28. Page 164. “Yet fell ye not, ye generous squadrons.”
- 29. Page 170. “The Conde de Toreno.”
- 30. Page 170. “The celebrated Pacheco.”
- 31. Page 176. “Rights of the Basque people.”
- 32. Page 180. “Observation may apply to English verse.”
- 33. Page 181. “The Roman friend,” &c.
- 34. Page 183. “I saw upon the shady Thames.”
- 35. Page 184. “The light foot that never stirs,” &c.
- 36. Page 216. “His biographer, Pastor Diaz,” &c.
- 37. Page 216. “The advantages he enjoyed there.”
- 38. Page 222. “Pedro, surnamed the Cruel.”
- 39. Page 227. “Yet, ah! those lovely bowers along,” &c.
- 40. Page 233. “Darting round fierce looks,” &c.
- 41. Page 234. “The crackling of his arms and knees.”
- 42. Page 236.
- 43. Page 259. “Meagre soup bouillie.”
- 44. Page 260. “Whene’er Don Juan,” &c.
- 45. Page 269. “The celebrated Lista.”
- 46. Page 271. “Twelve out of the nineteen stanzas.”
- 47. Page 272. “Part of his first volume is taken up with imitations.”
- En el Album de una Senorita.
- In a Lady’s Album.
- Written in an Album.
- 48. Page 275. “Sonnet, Dedication,” &c.
- A mi Esposa.
- 49. Page 282. “Milton elevated all beyond.”
- 50. Page 305. “Josè de Espronceda.”
- 51. Page 315. “Sail on, my swift one, never fear.”
- 52. Page 323. “Josè Zorrilla.”
- 53. Page 347. “The Tower of Munion.”
- 54. Page 352. “Meditation.”
- La Meditacion.
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