Fifteenth-Century Spanish Poetry | Theodore L. Kassier (essay date 1976)
Theodore L. Kassier (essay date 1976)
SOURCE: Kassier, Theodore L. “Cancionero Poetry and the Celestina: From Metaphor to Reality.” Hispanófila 56 (1976): 1-28.
[In the following essay, Kassier stresses the influence of the conventions of cancionero verse on the seminal Spanish realist novel, the Tragicomedia de Calixto y Melibea.]
The poetry contained in the Castilian cancioneros compiled in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, consolidated by Foulché-Delbosc in his Cancionero Castellano del Siglo XV,1 unites the conventions of the Galaico-Portuguese, Provençal, and courtly love poetical traditions, as well as Petrarchian influences.2 To date, the rôle of this poesía de cancionero in the Celestina has been studied only indirectly in critical works of great scope: as related to Calisto's character or anomalies in the first Act's setting in María Rosa Lida...
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