Fifteenth-Century Spanish Poetry | Michel Garcia (essay date 1998)
Michel Garcia (essay date 1998)
SOURCE: Garcia, Michel. “In Praise of the Cancionero: Considerations on the Social Meaning of the Castilian Cancioneros.” In Poetry at Court in Trastamaran Spain: From the Cancionero de Baena to the Cancionero General, edited by E. Michael Gerli and Julian Weiss, pp. 47-56. Tempe, Ariz.: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1998.
[In the following essay, Garcia concentrates on the importance of evaluating cancionero verse in collective form as poetic anthology.]
Nothing could be more timely than this collection of studies, now that Brian Dutton's compilation of cancioneros (1990-91) is finally completed, and now that—thanks to him—we have an exceptional opportunity to make an in-depth study of the entire corpus of fifteenth-century court poetry. My intention here is not merely to pay personal tribute to our late colleague but to recognize an exceptional fact: it...
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