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Hear Spain’s verse move from songs of heroes and battles to the intimate ache of lost love.
A Spanish Anthology, gathered by J. D. M. Ford, brings together poetry across centuries. Love, faith, war, and homeland give its many voices their subjects. Ford, a Harvard teacher of Spanish literature, offers a wide first look at a tradition whose music rests on clear vowels and strong rhythm.
The journey moves through medieval song and story, the polished forms of the Golden Age, and the inward turn of Romantic poetry. The Poem of the Cid anchors the account of heroic verse; later sections explore Italian influence, the sonnet, and poems of freedom, rebellion, lost love, and Spain’s past.
What you’ll discover
- Songs and heroic stories Explore the medieval roots of verse shaped for listeners, with heroes and battles at its heart.
- The Golden Age Discover how Italian models help shape Spanish sonnets and other graceful poetic forms.
- The Romantic turn Follow poets toward freedom, rebellion, lost love, and the remembered past of their homeland.
- Music in the vowels Read slowly and aloud to feel the strong rhythm and clear vowels of Spanish verse.
- A teacher’s wide view Let Ford’s selection introduce a range of voices rather than one poet alone.
Who will love it
Readers who love poetry in many voices, students of Spanish who want verse to read aloud, and anyone curious about how a nation's songs changed from the Middle Ages to the age of railways.
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- A Harvard teacher gathers Spanish verse for students
- The introduction maps Castilian poetry across the centuries
- Spanish verse counts syllables, accents and vowels
- Medieval poets sing of love, death and small women
- Jorge Manrique mourns his father and all passing things
- Ballads tell the history of Spain in short scenes
- Italian forms and mystic fire mark the Golden Age
- The eighteenth century brings satire, fables and reform
- Nineteenth century voices run from war to private sorrow
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Spanische Anthologie
by J. D. M. Ford (Herausgeber)
Death leads a dance, a pirate sails free and a nun longs to die in one book of Spanish verse.
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A Harvard teacher gathers Spanish verse for students
Ford, an instructor in Romance Languages at Harvard, built this anthology after seeing that Spanish verse appeals to the imagination of English-speaking students. He offers it for academic use and hopes it will appeal to general readers too. The book follows lyrics in the Castilian language, from the thirteenth century down to his own time.
He points out that many of these poems already live in English through translation. His example is Longfellow's version of the Coplas of Jorge Manrique. He admits that some readings of old texts may be uncertain, since he could not consult the manuscripts. One small choice he explains is changing s to z in old spellings, where early editors had mistaken one letter for the other.
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What is A Spanish Anthology about?
It is a collection of Spanish lyric poems from the thirteenth century to 1901, gathered by J. D. M. Ford. It includes ballads, sonnets, prayers, fables and songs, with notes on each poet and on how Spanish verse works.
Who edited A Spanish Anthology and when?
J. D. M. Ford, an instructor in Romance Languages at Harvard University, edited it. The anthology appears in 1901.
Which poets are in A Spanish Anthology?
The poets include Gonzalo de Berceo, Juan Ruiz, Jorge Manrique, Garcilaso de la Vega, Fray Luis de León, Santa Teresa, Lope de Vega, Quevedo, Sor Juana, Espronceda and Bécquer, plus many anonymous ballads.
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