The Spanish Gypsy

The Spanish Gypsy
Author: George Eliot
Publisher:
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1868
Genre: Romanies
ISBN:

The Spanish Gypsy is a narrative poem set in fifteenth-century Spain and tells the story of a young woman, Fedalma. She was born a gypsy, but was taken from her parents by the Spaniards during a raid against the Moors. She was raised in luxury and as a Catholic by her fiancé Don Silva's family. Her father, a leader of the gypsies later appears and she must chose between her fiance and her people.

The Spanish Gypsy by George Eliot

The Spanish Gypsy by George Eliot
Author: Antonie Gerard van den Broek
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2016-06-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1315475871

In 1864, George Eliot began writing her longest poem, "The Spanish Gypsy". This project exhausted her, and her partner took the manuscript away from her for fear it was making her ill. This work explains what Eliot read to research the poem, which parts caused her particular problems and summarises the poem's critical reception.

The Spanish Gypsy by George Eliot

The Spanish Gypsy by George Eliot
Author: Antonie Gerard van den Broek
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto Publishers
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781781446546

In 1864, George Eliot began writing her longest poem, The Spanish Gypsy. This ambitious project exhausted her, and her partner George Henry Lewes took the manuscript away from her for fear it was making her ill. She returned to it two years later, after finishing Felix Holt. She threw herself into the work, even visiting Spain as part of her research. Finally published in 1868 to mixed reviews, the poem not only has intrinsic merit but looks forward to Eliot's interests and concerns in her later work, especially Daniel Deronda. Following on from Pickering & Chatto's highly successful The Complete Shorter Poetry of George Eliot, this is the first scholarly edition of The Spanish Gypsy. Also edited by Antonie Gerard van den Broek, it benefits from full scholarly apparatus, including a substantial general introduction, textual variants and endnotes. The general introduction is based on detailed analysis of letters, journals, notebooks, proofs, as well as the manuscript itself (now held in the British Library). The editor explains what Eliot read to research the poem, which parts caused her particular problems, summarises the poem's critical reception, and contextualises it within her wider oeuvre.