Shards of Love
Subtitle: Exile and the Origins of the Lyric
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780822314059
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Poetry & poets; Medieval Literature - History And Criticism; Literary Criticism; Poetry, Medieval; Exile (Punishment) in literature; Literary Studies/American Lite; Medieval & Early Modern Studie; cloth; Exiles in literature; Exile (Punishment) in literatu; History and criticism; Love poetry
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.