Miguel de Cervantes (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
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Miguel de Cervantes never sought acclaim as a writer of fiction. He longed for the more popular success and financial rewards offered by the stage and hoped to gain a more prestigious literary reputation as a great poet, as evidenced by the time and dedication which he committed to his long derivative poem, Viaje del Parnaso (1614; The Voyage of Parnassus, 1870). These ambitions were unrealized. In fact, he admits in the poem of 1614 that heaven never blessed him with the poetic gift. His efforts in the theater did not bring him success at the...
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