Garcilaso de la Vega

Garcilaso De La Vega - gärthēläˈsō thā lä vāˈgä, 1503?–1536, lyric poet of the Spanish Golden Age, b. Toledo. Garcilaso, the embodiment of the cultured and gifted courtier, was chiefly responsible for the renovation of Spanish poetry. He was the first to adapt successfully the Italian 11-syllable line to the mood and Read More...

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The Myth of Apollo and Daphne from Ovid to Quevedo: Love, Agon, and the Grotesque (Chap. 4 "The Grotesque and the Courtly in Garcilaso's Apollo and Daphne")
by Mary E. Barnard. 214 pgs.

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Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: Ovid's Metamorphoses 1.452-567: Erotic Comedy and Two Grotesques

2: The Christianization of the Myth of Apollo and Daphne in Ovid's Medieval Commentators

3: Agon, Ecstasy, and Failure in Petrarch's Canzoniere

4: The Grotesque and the Courtly in Garcilaso's Apollo and Daphne

5: Myth in Quevedo: The Serious and the Burlesque in the Apollo and Daphne Poems

APPENDIX: Quevedo's Revisions of His Daphne Sonnet

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Spain: A Short History of Its Politics, Literature, and Art from Earliest Times to the Present (1926) (Chap. XXI "Boscan and Garcilaso")
by Henry Dwight Sedgwick. 400 pgs.

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Preface

Contents

Illustrations

Introduction

I: The Beginnings

II: The Roman Domination

III: The Visigoths

IV: The Mohammedan Conquest

V: Mohammedan Spain

VI: The Heroes

VII: The Cid (1040-1099)

VIII: Architecture in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

IX: Alfonso El Sabio (1221-1284)

X: Memorabilia of the Fourteenth Century

XI: The House of Trastamara

XII: The Reign of Juan II (R. 1406-1454)

XIII: The Portico of the Spanish Renaissance

XIV: Los Reyes CatóLicos

XV: Contemporary Judgments on Ferdinand and Isabella

XVI: The Religious Policy of the Catholic Sovereigns

XVII: The Jews and the Inquisition

XVIII: Literature under Ferdinand and Isabella

XIX: Charles V in Spain

XX: The Fatal Foreign Policy

XXI: Boscán and Garcilaso

XXII: Architecture under Italian Influences

XXIII: Sculpture

XXIV: The Reign of Philip II

XXV: The Religious Writers of the Sixteenth Century

XXVI: Minor Aspects of Philip's Reign

XXVII: Miguel de Cervantes

XXVIII: Lope de Vega

XXIX: Gongora and Quevedo

XXX: Guillén de Castro, Tirso de Molina., Alarcón

XXXI: Painting Prior to the Great Masters

XXXII: Rubens in Spain, Ribalta, Ribera

XXXIII: The Reign of Philip Iv

XXXIV: Court Life under Philip Iv

XXXV: Velásquez and Calderón

XXXV: Reign of Charles II (1665-1700)

XXXVII: Certain Aspects of Spanish Catholicism

XXXVIII: Murillo

XXXIX: The Eighteenth Century

XL: The Napoleonic Era

XLI: The Romantic Movement

XLII: Foreign Travelers. 1818-1845

XLIII: In the Reign of Isabella II: 1833-1868

XLIV: Campoamor, Becquer, Echegaray

XLV: The Novels, 1840-1890

XLVi: The Generation of 1898

XLVii: Our Contemporaries

Epilogue

Appendices

Index
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The Later Renaissance (1898) (Chap II "The Spanish Learned Poets")
by David Hannay. 381 pgs.

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Chapter I: The Later Renaissance in Spain.

Chapter II: The Spanish Learned Poets.

Chapter III: The Growth and Decadence of The Spanish Drama.

Chapter IV: Forms of the Spanish Drama

Chapter V: Spanish Prose Romance.

Chapter VI: Spain--Historians, Miscellaneous Writers, And The Mystics.

Chapter VII: Elizabethan Poetry.

Chapter VIII: The Earlier Dramatists.

Chapter IX: The Elizabethan Prose--Writers

Chapter X: France. Poetry of the Later Renaissance

Chapter XI: French Prose-Writers of the Later Sixteenth Century.

Chapter XII: The Later Renaissance in Italy

Chapter XIII: Conclusion.

Index
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The Voice of the Phoenix: Metaphors of Death and Rebirth in Classics of the Iberian Renaissance (Chap. 2 "Subjection to Fate or Passionate Willing? Reassessing Love in Garcilaso in the Light of Value Theory")
by Bryant Creel. 372 pgs.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

1: Entombed in Love

2: Subjection to Fate or Passionate Willing?

3: Obsequious Love as the Ego's Release from Frustration through Mortification of Self

4: The Death of Love's Hopes

5: Ambivalent Love and the Birth Pangs of Individuation in Garcilaso, Fray Luis de León, Fairbairn, and Jung

6: The Despondence of Orphaned Humanity

7: Moral Disfranchisement as Ironic Rebirth in Lazarillo de Tormes

8: The Agony and Apotheosis of Innocent Love

9: Chaste Love as Metaphorical Death

10: Finite Reality's Rebirth as Poetic Imagery

Conclusions

Works Cited

Index of Names

Subject Index
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The Literature of the Spanish People from Roman Times to the Present Day (Discussion of Garcilaso de la Vega begins on p. 149)
by Gerald Brenan. 500 pgs.

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Preface

Chapter I: The Roman and Visigothic Periods

Chapter II: The Arab Period

Chapter III: The Early Middle Ages

Chapter IV: The Archpriest of Hita

Chapter V: The Late Middle Ages

Chapter VI: The Period of the Catholic Kings

Chapter VII: The Siglo De Oro. Charles V and Philip II

Chapter VIII: Cervantes

Chapter IX: Lope De Vega and the New Comedy

Chapter X: Gόngora and the New Poetry

Chapter XI: Quevedo and GraciÁn

Chapter XII: Calderon and the Late Drama

Chapter XIII: The Eighteenth Century

Chapter XIV: Nineteenth-Century Poetry And Poetic Drama

Chapter XV: Nineteenth-Century Prose

Chapter XVI: The Twentieth Century

Chapter XVII: Postscript

A Short Bibliography

A Glossary Of Medieval Verse Forms

Index: Numbers in Bold Type Are Main References
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Passion, Penance and the Pastoral: Crucifixion Motifs in Some Spanish Golden Age Poems, in Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature
by Elizabeth Teresa Howe. 13 pgs.

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The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of the Renaissance (Discussion of Garcilaso de la Vega begins on p. 178)
by David Rundle. 436 pgs.

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