El tejido de la brisa

Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...

«Novalis, escribió el filósofo Georg Lukács, es el único poeta auténtico de la escuela romántica. Sólo en él se transformó el alma entera del Romanticismo en poema. La vida y la obra de Novalis, es inútil tratar de huir del lugar común, forman una unidad inescindible, y como tal unidad es un símbolo del Romanticismo en su plenitud». Una vida truncada en plena juventud y una obra compuesta en su mayor parte por fragmentos: sobre una y otra se alza uno de los episodios más deslumbrantes de la poesía universal. Si la palabra poética ya es de por sí visionaria y trascendente, lo ...

A critical edition of the original version of Calderón’s masterpiece, based on the text contained in the Zaragoza Parte (1636). Now republished for the first time since the seventeenth century, the "Zaragoza" version is preceded by a lengthy introductory study in which Ruano offers important evidence and new deductions convincingly to establish that Calderón wrote two versions of La vida es sueño (Life’s a Dream): a first version – the "Zaragoza" play, written probably before 1630 and primarily for performance – and a revised version (1635) for publication in the "Primera parte" of ...

A collection of poems, including "The Massacre," "No Harm Shall Come," "Touched," "Evensong," and "Amberose Triste"