Dec 31, 2009

Coplas on the Death of His Father | Coplas on the Death of His Father

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Author: Jorge Manrique
First Published: 1492
Type of Work: Poetry
Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry, Elegy
Subjects: Parents and children, Poetry or poets, Fathers, Death or dying, Fifteenth century, Life, philosophy of, Life and death, Middle Ages, Spain or Spanish people

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Jorge Manrique, regarded as having been among the most accomplished of late medieval Spanish poets, belonged to an aristocratic Castilian family, one that left its mark upon the cultural as well as the political history of the fifteenth century. His father, Rodrigo, Count of Paredes, rose to be Master of Santiago and Constable of Castile. Jorge’s uncle, Gómez Manrique, was one of the finest poets of the reign of King Enrique IV (1454-1474). Among more distant kinsmen, Jorge could claim as a great-uncle the celebrated writer Iñigo Lopez de Mendoza,...

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Coplas on the Death of His Father | Coplas on the Death of His Father

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