Shards of Love
Subtitle: Exile and the Origins of the Lyric
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780822314196
Subjects: Poetry & poets; World history: c 500 to C 1500; Love poetry; History and criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Poetry, Medieval; Medieval; Poetry; Literary Studies/American Lite; Medieval & Early Modern Studie; paper; Exiles in literature; Exile (Punishment) in literatu; Exile (Punishment) in literature
First sentence: These are the first days of August 1492.If we go down to the docks in the great Spanish port of Cadiz we are overwhelmed, barely able to find a square inch on which to stand, scarcely able to glimpse the ships amassed in the harbor.