Un espacio en mi tiempo

In 1912, from Ronda, Spain, the great Czech poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote about the lasting impact Toledo, Spain, had made on him the previous month. He was fascinated by the city and the work of El Greco. This book presents Rilke's lyrical impressions alongside fantastic illustrations by Eva Vásquez, who spent a year in the streets and squares of Toledo shaping her vision of the city into images. Two different, complementary perspectives of Toledo come together to encourage the discovery—or rediscovery—of the wonderful “Imperial City.”

Excerpt from Rimas de Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola, Vol. 1Una de las principales causas del mal gusto que se advierte en la mayor parte de las poesias de nuestros dias es la escasez de los buenos originales, que puedan servir de modelo a' la juventud estudiosa: al mismo tiempo que las r'nul tiplicadas ediciones de los corruptores de nuestro Parnaso andando en manos de todos, mantienen y perpetuan el mal gusto. Porque sabida cosa es que la suerte de la mayor parte de los ingenios depende por lo comun de los autores, que por casualidad llegan primero a sus manos: raros son los que para...

Gabriela Mistral (1889-1967), Chile's 'other' great poet of the twentieth century, is little known outside the Spanish-speaking world, and unlike Pablo Neruda has not been extensively translated into English. She deserves better, particularly as the first Latin American recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1945), and this selection of her poetry is designed to introduce her to an English-speaking public. Born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga in the Elqui valley in the 'little north' of Chile, she became a schoolteacher at the age of fifteen and went on to become an educator of international...

Se analiza la relación de la obra poética y teatral de T.S. Eliot con la doctrina de San Juan de la Cruz expuesta en sus grandes tratados ascético-místicos y en su poesía. Esto nos revela afinidades que van más allá de lo que hasta ahora se había señalado entre la obra del carmelita y los Ariel Poems, Ash-Wednesday, Murder in the Cathedral, The Family Reunión...