In the following essay, Borgia traces the influence of Dantean allegory on the poetry of Francisco Imperial, Juan de Mena, and the Marqués de Santillana.
Historical critics have used the pre...
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In the following essay, Caravaggi identifies Petrarchan structural, stylistic, and thematic features in Santillana's Triunphete de Amor.
The fortune of Petrarch in Spain is usually linked to...
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In the following essay, Clarke explicates the poem Decir a las siete virtudes from the fifteenth-century collection Cancionero de Baena.
The longest (465 verses), undoubtedly the best known, the mo...
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In the following excerpt, Weiss surveys the social and theoretical principles expressed in Castilian poetry of the fifteenth century.
1 Aims and Scope
The fifteenth century in Castile saw an astoni...
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In the following excerpt, Clarke analyzes the verso de arte mayor—the dominant metrical form of cancionero poetry—and examines its decline in relation to octosyllablic verse.
The Verso...
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In the following essay, Kassier stresses the influence of the conventions of cancionero verse on the seminal Spanish realist novel, the Tragicomedia de Calixto y Melibea.
The poetry contained in th...
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In the following essay, Whetnall studies the feminine lyric tradition—featuring the poetic laments of grieving, betrayed, and wronged women—in cancionero verse.
There is a small numbe...
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In the following essay, Macpherson highlights strong suggestions of coded signification and innuendo in cancionero poetry.
The title of this article contains a conscious stylistic device. By ȁ...
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In the following essay, Garcia concentrates on the importance of evaluating cancionero verse in collective form as poetic anthology.
Nothing could be more timely than this collection of studies, no...
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In the following essay, de Langbehn explores a combined interest in moral and political themes in cancionero verse, with particular regard to the concept of justice and the social position of the aris...
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In the following essay, Darst emphasizes the political motivation behind Jorge Manrique's elegy Coplas por la muerte de su padre.
Jorge Manrique's moving elegy to his father has been ...
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Critical Essay by Carl Ralph Borgia
