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Book SynopsisThe fine tradition of the Spanish sonnet, developed during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the subject of Rutherford’s The Spanish Golden Age Sonnet (2016), has been extended and developed during the subsequent centuries. This book presents one hundred of the best sonnets of the eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including sonnets written in the Catalan and Galician languages, together with their translations into modern English sonnets and a critical commentary on each. There is a general introduction to the genre, followed by summaries of the historical and literary backgrounds and a discussion of the problems facing the translator of sonnets. The life and works of each poet are summarised and a select bibliography of further reading concludes the volume. The translations bring these sonnets to new life in the modern English language, and they can be read both as interesting and lively poems in their own right and as leads into the originals.
Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Diego de Torres Villarroel Nicolás Fernández de Moratín José Cadalso Tomás de Iriarte Juan Meléndez Valdés José de Espronceda Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda Carolina Coronado Adelardo López de Ayala José Echegaray Pedro Antonio de Alarcón Gaspar Núñez de Arce Gustavo Alonso Bécquer Leopoldo Cano y Masas Manuel Curros Enríquez Joan Alcover Salvador Rueda Miguel de Unamuno Rubén Darío Manuel Machado Antonio Machado Ramón Cabanillas Juan Ramón Jiménez Josep Carner Tomás Morales J. V. Foix Jorge Guillén Carles Riba Xosé Crecente Vega Gerardo Diego Avelino Díaz Federico García Lorca Rosa Chacel Dámaso Alonso Rafael Alberti Miguel Hernández Xosé María Díaz Castro Blas de Otero Joan Brossa Rafael Morales Luz Pozo Garza José María Valverde Ramón García González Antonio Gamoneda Francisco Brines Antonio Carvajal Jesús Royo Arpón Luis Alberto de Cuenca Darío Xohán Cabana Ramiro Fonte Acknowledgements Select Bibliography Index of first lines of Spanish sonnets Index
