History of Spanish Literature, vol. 1 (of 3)

Name: History of Spanish Literature, vol. 1 (of 3)
Author: Ticknor, George

Ticknor, George

Spanish literature -- History and criticism

In correcting my manuscript for the press I have enjoyed the counsels
of two of my more intimate friends; of Mr. Francis C. Gray, a scholar
who should permit the world to profit more than it does by the large
resources of his accurate and tasteful learning, and of Mr. William
H. Prescott, the historian of both hemispheres, whose name will not
be forgotten in either, but whose honors will always be dearest to
those who have best known the discouragements under which they have
been won, and the modesty and gentleness with which they are worn. To
these faithful friends, whose unchanging regard has entered into the
happiness of all the active years of my life, I make my affectionate
acknowledgments, as I now part from a work in which they have always
taken an interest, and which, wherever it goes, will carry on its pages
the silent proofs of their kindness and taste.

  Park Street, Boston, 1849.


I cannot dismiss the last sheet of this History, without offering my
sincere thanks to the conductors of the University Press at Cambridge,
and to Mr. George Nichols, its scholarlike corrector, for the
practised skill and conscientious fidelity with which, after it was in
type, my work has been revised and prepared for publication.




  CONTENTS
  OF
  VOLUME FIRST.


  FIRST PERIOD.

  THE LITERATURE THAT EXISTED IN SPAIN BETWEEN THE FIRST APPEARANCE
  OF THE PRESENT WRITTEN LANGUAGE AND THE EARLY PART OF THE REIGN
  OF THE EMPEROR CHARLES THE FIFTH, OR FROM THE END OF THE TWELFTH
  CENTURY TO THE BEGINNING OF THE SIXTEENTH.


  CHAPTER I.

  INTRODUCTION.

  Origin of Modern Literature          3
  Its Origin in Spain                  4
  Its earliest Appearance there        5
  Two Schools                          5
  The National School                  6
  It appears in troubled Times         6
  The Arab Invasion                    7
  Christian Resistance                 8
  Christian Successes                  8
  Battle of Navas de Tolosa            9
  Earliest National Poetry            10


  CHAPTER II.

  EARLY NATIONAL LITERATURE.

  Appearance of the Castilian         11
  Poem of the Cid                     12
  Its Hero                            13
  Its Subject                         15
  Its Character                       16
  Book of Apollonius                  24
  Saint Mary of Egypt                 25
  Three Holy Kings                    26
  All anonymous                       27
  Gonzalo de Berceo                   28
  His Works                           28
  His Versification                   29
  His San Domingo                     30
  His Milagros de la Vírgen           30


  CHAPTER III.

  ALFONSO THE WISE, OR THE LEARNED.

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History of Spanish Literature, vol. 1 (of 3)

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