num_pages: 248
description: Garcilaso de la Vega (ca. 150136) a Castilian nobleman and soldier at the court of Charles V lived a short but glamorous life. As the first poet to make the Italian Renaissance lyric style at home in Spanish he is credited with beginning the golden age of Spanish poetry. Known for his sonnets and pastorals gracefully depicting beauty and love while soberly accepting their passing he is shown here also as a calm student of loves psychology and a critic of the savagery of war.This bilingual volume is the first in nearly two hundred years to fully represent Garcilaso for an Anglophone readership. In facing-page translations that capture the music and skill of Garcilasos verse John-Dent Young presents the sonnets songs elegies and eclogues that came to influence generations of poets including San Juan de la Cruz Luis de Leon Cervantes and Gngora. The Selected Poems of Garcilaso de la Vega will help to explain to the English-speaking public this poets preeminence in the pantheon of Spanish letters.
language: English
title: Selected Poems of Garcilaso de la Vega: A Bilingual Edition
publisher: University of Chicago Press