Author: Charles Edward Cutts Birch Appleton
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Published: 1884
Total Pages: 518
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Swan Stallybrass (formerly Sonnenschein.)
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Paul Blackburn
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780806130217
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Few works have shaped a national literature as thoroughly as the Poem of the Cid has shaped the Spanish literary tradition. Tracing the life of the eleventh-century military commander Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, called the Cid (from the Arabic Sayyidi, "My Lord"), this medieval epic describes a series of events surrounding his exile. The text of the poem survives in only one early thirteenth-century manuscript copied by a single scribe, yet centuries later the figure of the Cid still was celebrated in the Spanish popular ballad tradition. Today almost every theme that characterizes Spanish literature - honor, justice, loyalty, treachery, and jealousy - derives from the Poem of the Cid. Restored by poet and medievalist George Economou, this elegant and spirited translation by Paul Blackburn is judged by many the finest English translation of a great medieval poem.
Author: William Swan Sonnenschein
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Published: 1891
Total Pages: 1146
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