Selected poems of Garcilaso de la Vega
Subtitle: a bilingual edition
By: edited and translated by John Dent-Young.
Contributors: Dent-Young, John.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780226141886
Subjects: Spanish poetry -- Classical period, 1500-1700
Work titles: Poems.
Description: Garcilaso adopted the Italian Renaissance lyric style of poetry & is thereby credited with beginning the Golden Age of Spanish poetry. Known for his sonnets & pastorals, he was also a calm student of love's philosophy & a critic of the savagery of war.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sonnets. Introduction; title: I cuando me paro a contemplar mi estado = When i stop to view my situation . . .; title: Escrito está en mi alma vuestro gesto = Your countenance is written in my soul . . .; title: [MARC+96]Oh dulces prendas, por mi mal halladas = O sweet mementoes, unfortunately found . . .; title: Hermosas ninfas, que en el río metidas = Slender nymphs who dwell within the river . . .; title: A Dafne ya los brazos le crecían = Daphne's arms were growing . . . Pensando que el camino iba derecho = Thinking that the road i took was straight . . .; title: En tanto que de rosa y azucena = While colors of the lily and the rose . . .; title: [MARC+96]Oh hado esecutivo en mis dolores = O fate, so active to promote my troubles . . .; title: Sospechas, que en mi triste fantasía = Suspicion, how you occupy my sad . . .; title: Estoy contino en lágrimas bañado = I am continually half drowned in tears . . .; title: Mario, el ingrato amor, como testigo = Mario, love the ingrate having observed . . .; title: Boscán, las armas y el furor de marte = Arms, boscán, and the fury of rampant Mars . . .; title: Mi lengua va por do el dolor la guía = My tongue simply follows where pain leads . . .; title: Songs. Introduction; title: Con un manso ruido = With the gentle lapping . . .; title: Si de mi baja lira = If the sound of my simple . . .; title: Elegies and epistle to Boscan. Introduction; title: I aunque este grave caso haya tocado = Although this dread event has touched my soul . . .; title: Aquí, Boscán, donde del buen troyano = Here, Boscán, where the great Mantuan locates . . .; title: Epistle señor Boscán, quien tanto gusto tiene = Señor Boscán, for one who takes such pleasure . . .; title: Eclogues. Introduction; title: I el dulce lamenter de dos pastores = Of two shepherds' melodious laments . . .; title: From ii en medio del invierno está templada = Even in the depths of winter, the water . . .; title: Aquella voluntad honesta y pura = That pure and honorable sense of duty . . .; title: Appendix A: two coplas; title: Appendix B: letter (as a prologue to Boscán's translation of Castiglione's The book of the courtier)