Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain

CONTENTS.

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Dedication	iii
Introduction. On the character of Spanish Poetry, Ancient and Modern.—Causes affecting it suggested from considerations of Roman civilization, Moorish wars, and personal history of the principal Poets.—Works on Spanish literature: Remarks on translation and language.—References to other modern Poets.—Spanish metres and versification	vii
Preliminary Note. On the pronunciation of Spanish names and words	xxxiii
PART I.
I. GASPAR MELCHOR DE JOVELLANOS.
Memoir of	3
Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studies of Men	18
To Galatea’s Bird	30
To Enarda.—I.	32
To Enarda.—II.	33
II. TOMAS DE IRIARTE.
Memoir of	37
Epistle to Don Domingo de Iriarte, on his Travelling to various Foreign Courts	46
The Bear, the Monkey and the Hog	53
The Ass and the Flute	55
The Two Rabbits	56
The Lamb and his Two Advisers	58
The Flint and the Steel	59
III. JUAN MELENDEZ VALDES.
Memoir of	61
Juvenilities	77
The Timid Lover	79
My Village Life	81
Remembrances of Youth	84
Of the Sciences	87
The Disdainful Shepherdess	90
IV. LEANDRO FERNANDEZ MORATIN.
Memoir of	95
Dedication of the Mogigata to the Prince of the Peace	106
Epistle to Don Gaspar de Jovellanos, sent from Rome	108
V. JUAN BAUTISTA DE ARRIAZA.
Memoir of	113
Tempest and War, or the Battle of Trafalgar	123
The Parting	132
VI. MANUEL JOSÈ QUINTANA.
Memoir of	141
To the Spanish Expedition for the Promotion of Vaccination in America, under Don Francisco Balmis	152
On the Battle of Trafalgar	158
PART II.
VII. FRANCISCO MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA.
Memoir of	169
Remembrance of Spain, written in London in 1811	183
Return to Granada, October 27, 1831	185
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MODERN POETS AND POETRY OF SPAIN.

MODERN POETS
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