Poems To Lisi

Francisco De Quevedo, D. Gareth Walters

Description

Poems to Lisi is presented here as an undergraduate student text with parallel-text English verse translations

This edition of Quevedo’s Poems to Lisi is a successor to the same editor’s original text in Exeter Hispanic Texts, which only contained the Spanish text of the poems (published in 1988). Rather than reprint that edition, the editor has chosen to make the text more widely available by setting his own English verse translations alongside the Spanish originals. It is intended to provide undergraduates in Hispanic Studies with an accessible edition of a key work of the Spanish Golden Age. The translations are close enough to the originals to be of value to those who have an adequate knowledge of Spanish, while the rendering of the poems into English verse (mainly blank verse sonnets) will enable those lacking such a knowledge to read them as poems in their own right.

Sujets

• European Studies
• European literature
• Spanish Golden Age
• Francisco de Quevedo
• General officer
• 16th century
• Spanish
• Poetry
• Études européennes
• General
• Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas

Informations

• Publié par: University of Exeter Press
• Date de parution: 02 mars 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780859899390
• Langue: English

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POEMS

TO

LISI

Francisco de Quevedo edited and translated by D. Gareth Walters

POEMS TO LISI

POEMS TO LISI

Francisco de Quevedo

edited, and with paralleltext English verse translation by D. Gareth Walters

First published in 2006 by University of Exeter Press Reed Hall, Streatham Drive Exeter EX4 4QR UK www.exeterpress.co.uk

© D. Gareth Walters 2006

The right of D. Gareth Walters to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 10: 0 85989 765 6 ISBN 13: 978 0 85989 765 5

Typeset in 10/12pt Plantin Light by Kestrel Data, Exeter, Devon

Printed and bound in Great Britain by Athenaeum Press Ltd, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear

Prefatory note

CONTENTS

Introduction Outline biography of Quevedo Renaissance poetic cycles The poems to Lisi The order of the poems in the Lisi cycle

A note on the text and translation

POEMS TO LISI

Quevedo and his critics

Bibliography

Index of first lines

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1 1 2 13 18

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PREFATORY NOTE

In 1988 the University of Exeter Press published as volume 45 in the Exeter Hispanic Texts series my edition of Quevedo’sPoems to Lisi. The novelty of this edition lay in the reordering of the poems according to what I believed to be the evidence of Quevedo’s first editor and, where appropriate, the practice of the poet’s predecessors and contemporaries. The effect was to align Quevedo with the mainstream Petrarchist poets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The success of this edition and the controversy it has aroused among Quevedo scholars in Spain in particular have encouraged me to prepare a new edition of the text, but designed primarily for the student rather than the specialist. To this end I have modernized the orthography, supplied versetranslations in a paralleltext format, and added notes to and summaries of poems. It is intended therefore that this important and fascinating text will be accessible even to those with little or no knowledge of Spanish. At the same time, I hope that it will encourage further debate among scholars in the matter of the ordering and sequence of the poems.

D. Gareth Walters Exeter, July 2006

INTRODUCTION

Outline biography of Quevedo Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Villegas was born in Madrid in 1580. His father was secretary to one of Philip II’s wives, doña Ana, to whom the poet’s mother was a ladyinwaiting. After being educated by the Jesuits, Quevedo entered the University of Alcalá de Henares in 1596, continuing his studies at Valladolid where the court was in residence from 1601 to 1605. It was in these years that Quevedo’s formidable talent as a satirist in prose and verse started to make an impression in brilliant and cruel cameos of people and events. The first of his fiveSueños, a series of more extended satires on the customs of his contemporaries, was written in 1605, and it is probable that he would have started work on his only novel, the harrowing yet comicalEl Buscón, around this time. In 1604 he began to correspond with the Belgian humanist, Justus Lipsius, and, inspired perhaps by this friendship, turned his attention to translating and writing commentaries on the works of the Stoics. In 1613 Quevedo became secretary to the Duke of Osuna, Viceroy in Sicily, and later Naples. With Osuna’s fall from power in 1620 Quevedo suffered imprisonment and internal exile, though with the accession of Philip IV in 1621 his fortunes were restored. He cultivated the new king’s adviser orprivado, the CondeDuque de Olivares, but by the 1630s he was to become an embittered critic of the king and Olivares. In 1634 he married doña Esperanza de Mendoza, a noblewoman, but they were to separate within months. Little is known of other relationships except that a report on morals in 1624 referred to Quevedo’s long liaison with a woman named Ledesma by whom he had several children. In 1639 he was arrested, probably for treason, and imprisoned in harsh conditions. He was released, in poor health, in 1643, after Olivares