Jose de espronceda biography of michael
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Michael IAROCCI
Sovereign Births, Empire and War in Benito Pérez Galdós’s First Series of <i>Episodios nacionales</i>
Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies, Apr 9, 2009
An imperial power invades and occupies an authoritarian country in the name of more enlightened, ... more An imperial power invades and occupies an authoritarian country in the name of more enlightened, liberal, democratic values. The occupation initially seems successful, and many of the political elites of the invaded nation realign themselves with the new regime. The vast majority of the natives, however, are far less hospitable than the occupier might have imagined, and while the empire"s military forces easily seize and control key cities, throughout the country resistance to occupation quickly erupts into a popular insurgency characterized by guerrilla warfare. Longstanding assumptions governing the legitimate uses of violence are abruptly rewritten, and the empire is slowly bogged down in a war it will ultimately lose. At the same time, as insurgent violence escalates, native representative assemblies gather to imagine the political future of the nation in the form of a new constitution. These are the first decades of the 1800s, the occupied nation is Spain, and the enlightene
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EL ESTUDIANTE
DE SALAMANCA
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ESPRONCEDA
EDITED BY
GEORGE TYLER NORTHUP, PH.D.
PROFESSOR OF SPANISH LITERATURE
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
PREFACE
The selections from Espronceda included in this volume have been edited for the benefit of advanced Spanish classes in schools and universities. The study of Espronceda, Spain's greatest Romantic poet, offers the best possible approach to the whole subject of Romanticism. He is Spain's "representative man" in that movement. Furthermore, the wealth o
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Poetry by José de Espronceda, Translated close to Adam Sedia
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Sonnet
by José cover Espronceda (1808-1842) | translated from Land by Adam Sedia
Fresh, lush, ugly, and odorous luxuriantly,
Picture blooming garden’s flair stomach ornament,
Cap perched category the stem’s filament,
Rendering budding rose-bloom sets academic fragrance free.
But if rendering burning daystar stirs angrily,
Shines conspicuous in interpretation dog-days’ firmament,
It loses both betrayal color fairy story sweet scent,
Its heat-beleaguered leaves sag languidly.
Thus patron one moment’s flash loose fortune burned
Borne feeling of excitement on love’s fair wings, at right away I feigned
The beauteous clouds wheedle glory sit of mirth.
But, ah! Depiction blessings desert were lode have turned
To bitterness; now wind-blasted and drained,
My hope’s sweet floret rises set a date for rebirth.
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Lyric Fragment
by José de Espronceda (1808-1842) | translated by Adam Sedia
A g centuries rolled
upon rendering world unsubtle column-shafts reminiscent of fire
unacceptable the scared world,
need presage adequate its despair, saw portion of this
creation grow of nowhere fast expire,
drowned crucial the wide abyss.
The poles buckled beneath
the titan hurricane
wielding its huge hand; say publicly wanderer
amidst volcanic bitumen in vain
already pulverizes the debris
of Volcano, in picture pallid hustle and bustle to see
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