Delphi Collected Works of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (Illustrated)

Delphi Collected Works of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (Illustrated)
Author: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Publisher: Delphi Classics
Total Pages: 1038
Release: 2023-03-13
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1801701091

The late Romantic poet Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer is considered one of the first modern Spanish poets. His ‘Rimas’ (Rhymes) are celebrated for their sensitive, restrained and deeply subjective quality. Bécquer’s poetry tackles themes of love, disillusionment and loneliness, while exploring the mysteries of life and poetry. In contrast to the rhetorical and dramatic style of the Romantic period, Bécquer’s lyricism, in which assonance predominates, is simple and airy. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature’s finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Bécquer’s collected works, with related illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Bécquer’s life and works * Concise introduction to Bécquer’s life and poetry * Images of how the poetry was first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Multiple translations of the ‘Rimas’: Owen Innsly, 1882; Mason Carnes, 1891 * Includes the original Spanish texts, edited by Everett Ward Olmsted in 1909, with hyperlinked footnotes and a vocabulary glossary * Excellent formatting of the poems * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Also includes Bécquer’s seminal romantic and gothic legends * Features a bonus biography — discover Bécquer’s world CONTENTS: The Life and Poetry of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer Brief Introduction: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1891) by Mason Carnes From the Spanish of Gustavo Bécquer (1882) by Owen Innsly Poems of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer Rendered into English Verse (1891) by Mason Carnes The Fiction Romantic Legends of Spain (1909) The Spanish Texts Legends, Tales and Poems (1909) by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer The Biography Life of Bécquer (1907) by Everett Ward Olmsted Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of poetry titles or buy the entire Delphi Poets Series as a Super Set

Rimas

Rimas
Author: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Interamericana de Espana, SL
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999-10-07
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9788448106201

Rhymes and Legends (Selection)/Rimas Y Leyendas (selección)

Rhymes and Legends (Selection)/Rimas Y Leyendas (selección)
Author: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2006-07-07
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 048644788X

Spain's great 19th-century lyric poet is best known for these two works: Rhymes, a suite of 66 melancholy poems, and the 6 tales of Legends, romantic portrayals of everyday events.

Collected Poems (Rimas)

Collected Poems (Rimas)
Author: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2007
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

Gustavo Adolfo Becquer was one of Spain's most important poets of the 19th century, and the instigator of a new Spanish version of Romanticism, influenced by German models such as Heine. Born in Seville in 1836, the son of an artist of Flemish origin, he lived only 34 years, but in that time created a hugely influential body of verse (his Rimas, or Rhymes) as well as several short fictions (the Leyendas, or Legends). His other works include a remarkable series of letters, or epistolary fictions, published as Desde mi celda (From My Cell). Orphaned at the age of five, Becquer was raised by an elderly, and childless, uncle. A talented artist himself - as was also his brother, Valeriano - he became a pupil at a local studio in Seville, but gave this up in favour of a literary career, heading for Madrid at the age of eighteen, full of hope. He obtained a minor post in the civil-service, thanks to his uncle's influence, but was not cut out for such a routine job and was dismissed. For some time thereafter he was a typical Bohemian artist, living on very little while trying to write, and scratching a small income from the translation of foreign novels, and from part-time journalism. Towards the end of his life he obtained another government post, as a censor, but when he died, it was in considerable poverty, suffering from pneumonia and liver problems. His work was only published posthumously, thanks to the efforts of his friends.