l(]io REVUE HISPANIQUE Numéro 57 iMARS 1909 REVUE HISPANIQUE MAÇON, PROTAT FRERES, IMPRIMEURS- REVUE HISPANIQUE Recueil consacré à l'cttuie des langues, des littératures et et de l'histoire des pays castillans, catalans portugais DIRIGÉ PAR R. Foulché-Delbosc TOME XX NEW YORK THE HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA AuDUBOK Park, West 15e th Street PARIS LIBRAIRIE C. KLINCKSIECK, 11, Rue de Lille 1909 pa BYRON AND ESPRONCRDA INTRODUCTION La suertc quiso Que no fuera yo Adam', sino Espronceda. El Diablo \fuiulo. In the springof the year preceding ' Byron's hasty ride through Spain, therc was born near the Estremaduran town of Alniendra- • I. This discussion of tlic Bvronism of José de Espronceda formed relative tlic niost important part of a dissertation presentedfor the degreeofdoctor ofphilosophy in Harvard University. The lias absence of predecessors in ascientific study of Spanish romanticism tlian I compelled article, me first to be somewhat more discursive should hâve liked in this as practically notliing could be taken for granted, and ai the subject is one of importance. Subséquent treatment of romantic topics beginning, and Btbliogriiphv. inal I — and of B\ronism hope to get it I in particular — will be based upon this shall into ...