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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...

This book collects for the first time a compendium of poems written in English by brigadists, sanitary personnel and journalists that participated or were involved in the Spanish Civil War, as well as by intellectuals, writers and journalists that supported the republican cause from the outside. The anthology starts from a previous historical framework in which this poetic legacy has been contextualized, to know where, when, how and why these poems were written, and who wrote them or who were their protagonists. All these analyses have served to understand the causes of why this poetic legacy ...

Pedro del Frago y Garcés es en el panorama religioso-cultural del Reino de Aragón del siglo XVI un personaje importantísimo. Desde unos orígenes relativamente humildes, desarrolló una función relevante en el Concilio de Trento, llegó a ser obispo de varias diócesis sardas y aragonesas y se dedicó a la creación literaria en la vertiente teológica y en la poética. Aquí se estudia a Pedro del Frago desde la investigación de sus fuentes de conocimiento, desde los libros que influyeron en su forma de pensar y que sirvieron para construir su personalidad, para adquirir su estructura...

El ensayo Melilla y la poesía española desde 1900, con prólogo del catedrático de Literatura Española José Nicolás Romera Castillo, aborda la relación entre literatura y ciudad, en concreto, la poesía y la metrópoli melillense desde comienzos del siglo pasado. Es una elaboración del espacio urbano a través de la lírico contemporánea en sentido amplio. Así, se estudian los poemas que definen las campañas militares de comienzos del siglo XX en esta ciudad, o la presencia e importancia de las revistas literarias, las antologías con este espacio urbano como protagonista y las...