num_pages: 373
description: This spellbinding literary travel guide gathers poetry, nonfiction, and fiction about Spain by forty English and American writers.Here are letters and memoirs from Lord Byron, Edith Wharton, and Henry James; a poem about Picasso by E. E. Cummings; and a comic tale by Anthony Trollope in which two Englishmen mistake a Spanish duke for a bullfighter. W. H. Auden, George Orwell, and Langston Hughes record their experiences in the Spanish Civil War, Ernest Hemingway takes on bullfighting, Richard Wright is beguiled by gypsy flamenco dancers, and Calvin Trillin pursues an obsession with Spanish peppers. From Chris Stewart’s memoir of his rural retreat in Driving Over Lemons to Barbara Kingsolver’s idyllic portrait of the Canary Islands in “Where the Map Stopped,” the glimpses of another world in Spain in Mind will enchant you.Hemingway in Pamplona / John Affleck --Spain 1937 / W. H. Auden --village calendar / Gerald Brenan --Letter to his mother / George Gordon --Candle hat / Billy Collins --Picasso / E. E. Cummings --Winter in Castile / John Dos Passos --#76 / Lawrence Ferlinghetti --from Ten days in Spain / Kate Field --from Gatherings from Spain / Richard Ford --Water-fairies and altars / Lucia Graves --Sirocco at Deya / Robert Graves --from The dangerous summer / Ernest Hemingway --Letter from Spain; postcard from Spain / Langston Hughes --from Barcelona the Great Enchantress / Robert Hughes --Public fetes of Granada / Washington Irving --from Collected travel writings / Henry James --from Snowball oranges / Peter Kerr --Where the map stopped / Barbara Kingsolver --Catalonian shore / Rose Macaulay --On the victory obtained by Blake over the Spaniards / Andrew Marvell --from Don Fernando / W. Somerset Maugham --Badajoz / James A. Michener --from Travels with my donkey / Tim Moore --Four cities / Jan Morris --Spain / Favell Lee Mortimer --from A stranger in Spain / H. V. Morton --Holy Week in Seville / Eric Newby --La montana / Kate O'Brien --from Homage to Catalonia / George Orwell --from The foreigner / David Plante --Holiday / Mary Lee Settle --Friends and foreigners / Chris Stewart --Pepper chase / Calvin Trillin --John Bull on the Guadalquivir / Anthony Trollope --from A Spanish lover / Joanna Trollope --Visiting my daughter, an exchange student in Spain / Suellen Wedmore --from A backward glance / Edith Wharton --Indignation of a high-minded Spaniard / William Wordsworth --from Pagan Spain / Richard Wright
language: English
title: Spain in Mind: an anthology
titlecomplete: Spain in Mind: an anthology
genres: Literature, Travel, Nonfiction, Spain
ratings_count: 60
publisher: Vintage