PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
ESSAY ON SPANISH POETRY. CHAPTER I. OF THE ORIGIN OF SPANISH POETRY, AND ITS PROGRESS TO JUAN DE MENA.
LIFE OF GARCILASSO.
VERSES ON THE DEATH OF GARCILASSO.
ECLOGUES.
ELEGIES AND EPISTLES.
ODES AND SONGS.
SONNETS, ETC.
APPENDIX. I. Page 15 PRAISE OF LITTLE WOMEN. I wish to make my
FOOTNOTES:
Transcriber's Notes:
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[Portrait of Garcilasso de la Vega] Louis Parez ddin.Robt. Cooper Sculp
Garcilasso de la Vega.
Nat. 1503.Ob. 1536.
Published March 1st. 1823. by Messrs. Hurst & Robinson.
THE
WORKS
OF
GARCILASSO DE LA VEGA,
SURNAMED
THE PRINCE OF CASTILIAN POETS,
Translated into English Verse;
WITH
A CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAY ON SPANISH POETRY,
AND
A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.
By J. H. WIFFEN.
"Sometimes he turned to gaze upon his book,
BoscÁn or Garcilasso; by the wind
Even as the page is rustled whilst we look,
So by the poesy of his own mind
Over the mystic leaf his soul was shook."
Lord Byron.
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This Translation,
IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE LITERARY EASE
THAT HAS LED TO ITS PRODUCTION,
IS, WITH DEEP RESPECT AND ADMIRATION,
Inscribed
BY THE AUTHOR.
