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The Epic of America

By Andrew Laird

The Epic of America Contemporary literature

The Epic of America

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A lively introduction to the rich and complex tradition of Latin literature from colonial Spanish America, and to its best known author, the poet Rafael Landivar. Rafael Landivar is the best known of all the poets from the Americas to write in Latin. In the 15 books of his Rusticatio Mexicana (1782), he described - in vivid epic verse - the lakes, volcanoes, and wildlife of Mexico and his native Guatemala, as well as the livelihoods and recreations of the people of the region. This panorama of nature, culture and production in colonial New Spain took classical didactic poetry into a new world of political conflict. But Landivar also writes with a strongly personal voice: elegiac and pastoral modes convey the pathos of displacement and the poet's overwhelming nostalgia for his American homeland. Andrew Laird's introduction provides information about Landivar's life and exile to Italy, explains his diverse intellectual heritage, and collects his shorter works (translated into English here for the first time). A 1948 text of the Rusticatio Mexicana, with a translation by Graydon W. Regenos, is included in this volume.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
322
Release Date:
2006-07-30
Publication Date:
2006-07-27
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0715632817
ISBN13:
9780715632819
Weight:
619 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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