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Poem of the Cid: A Modern Translation with Notes by Paul Blackburn

Poem of the Cid: A Modern Translation with Notes by Paul Blackburn

Economou, George
Cortest, Luis
Blackburn, Paul

Paperback

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0806130229
ISBN13: 9780806130224
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: Apr 15 1998
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.43 Depth: 8.52
Language: English

Few works have shaped a national literature as thoroughly as the Poem of the Cid has shaped the Spanish literary tradition. Tracing the life of the eleventh-century military commander Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, called El Cid (from the Arabic Sayyidi, My Lord), this medieval epic describes a series of events surrounding his exile. The text of the poem survives in only one early-thirteenth-century manuscript copied by a single scribe, yet centuries later the figure of the Cid still was celebrated in the Spanish popular ballad tradition. Today almost every theme that characterizes Spanish literature-honor, justice, loyalty, treachery, and jealousy--derives from the Poem of the Cid.

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