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Collections of traditional Spanish ballads were made in the early seventeenth century; some recorded directly from singers, others reworked by educated poets. So popular were these that Court poets composed ballads of their own. Most Spanish poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries circulated in manuscript among a small coterie of wits and fellow poets, and it often contains references to contemporary events and people, sideswipes at institutions and individuals, and allusions to other writings of the time. The modern reader has to know about the people and events criticized and lampooned, and everything from municipal by-laws to contemporary painting can prove helpful. The traditional popular associations of the ballad also led to many poets combining in their poems the language of the street alongside that of polite society and the schoolroom. This volume discusses some of the problems encountered by anglophone students and teachers of literature when they turn to the Golden-Age ballad and offers informed guidance on how such poems might be read. The nine poems discussed have been chosen with such difficulties in mind and a strophe-by-strophe prose translation is provided for each, followed by a detailed critical analysis. Edited by NIGEL GRIFFIN, CLIVE GRIFFIN, ERIC SOUTHWORTH and COLIN THOMPSON, all of Oxford University. OTHER CONTRIBUTORS: Oliver Noble-Wood, John Rutherford, Ronald Truman.
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Neil Esangga
reviewed The Spanish Ballad in the Golden Age on April 25, 2018
The Spanish Ballad in the Golden Age
Discovering Robert Hayden's poetry has been a wonderful pleasure. This collection omits all or most of his first three books of poems (1940, 1948, and 1955), drawing from his middle and later books (1962 through his death in 1980). It's a slim book of roughly 90 poems, but their stylistic range is spectacular. Many of the poems (though not all) address themes of race, oppression, history, and identity. Many from the middle period poems are resolutely literary - not only are some of the words Hayden uses obscure, but the poems are packed with allusions to classical mythology, Biblical stories, and touchstones of western civilization generally. In his later poems, Hayden more often relaxes into spare or minimalist compositions, or into colloquial speech, or even stream-of-consciousness. A critical afterword by Arnold Rampersad remarks on the omnipresence of violence in Hayden's poetry; but at the same time, many of the poems present empathy or compassion as our best hope to balance and contain violence.
Some favorite poems from this collection include: Electrical Storm; Those Winter Sundays ("What did I know, what did I know/ of love's austere and lonely offices?"); Middle Passage; Runagate Runagate; October; and Ice Storm.
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