History of Spanish and Portuguese literature, Volume 1

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Bouterwek, Friedrich, 1766-1828

Title

History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2)

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Produced by Anita Hammond, Wayne Hammond, Josep Cols Canals and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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English

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PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

Subject

Portuguese literature -- History and criticism

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Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 55829

Release Date

October 27, 2017

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.HISTORY OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE LITERATURE.
2. 2.HISTORY OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE LITERATURE. BY FREDERICK BOUTERWEK. IN TWO VOLUMES. Translated from the Original German , BY THOMASINA ROSS. VOL. I. SPANISH LITERATURE. LONDON: BOOSEY AND SONS, BROAD STREET. 1823.
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.TABLE OF CONTENTS. VOL. I.
5. 5.INTRODUCTION. GENERAL VIEW OF THE ORIGIN OF ROMANTIC POETRY AND ELOQUENCE, IN THE KINGDOMS OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.
6. 6.HISTORY OF SPANISH LITERATURE.
7. 7.BOOK I. FROM THE END OF THE THIRTEENTH TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. — PROBABLE PERIOD OF THE FIRST ROMANCES. — POEMA DEL CID. — POEMA DE ALEXANDRO MAGNO. — GONZALO BERCEO. — ALPHONSO X.; HIS LITERARY MERITS—NICOLAS AND ANTONIO DE LOS ROMANCES , &c. — ALPHONSO XI. — EARLY CULTIVATION OF CASTILIAN PROSE—DON JUAN MANUEL; HIS CONDE LUCANOR; HIS ROMANCES. — SATIRICAL POEM OF JUAN RUYZ, ARCH-PRIEST OF HITA. — MORE PRECISE ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN OF THE SPANISH POETIC ROMANCES AND SONGS—PROBABLE RISE OF THE ROMANCES OF CHIVALRY IN PROSE—ORIGINAL RELATIONSHIP OF THE POETIC AND THE PROSE ROMANCES. — THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF POETIC ROMANCE. — CASTILIAN POETRY IN THE THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH CENTURIES. — POETICAL COURT OF JOHN II. — THE MARQUIS OF VILLENA. — THE MARQUIS OF SANTILLANA; HIS POETICAL WORKS; HIS HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL LETTER. — JUAN DE MENA. — PEREZ DE GUZMAN, RODRIGUEZ DEL PADRON, AND OTHER SPANISH LYRIC POETS OF THE AGE OF JOHN II. — OF THE CANCIONERO GENERAL, AND THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF ANCIENT SPANISH SONGS. — OF THE ROMANCERO GENERAL. — FIRST TRACES OF THE ORIGIN OF SPANISH DRAMATIC POETRY IN THE MINGO REBULGO—JUAN DEL ENZINA—CALLISTUS AND MELIBŒA, A DRAMATIC TALE. — FURTHER ACCOUNT OF SPANISH PROSE. RISE OF THE HISTORICAL ART—EARLY PROGRESS OF THE EPISTOLARY STYLE. — JUAN DE LA ENZINA’S ART OF CASTILIAN POETRY.
8. 8.BOOK II. FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE SIXTEENTH TO THE LATTER HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. — INTRODUCTION. GENERAL VIEW OF THE STATE OF POETICAL AND RHETORICAL CULTIVATION IN SPAIN DURING THE ABOVE PERIOD.
9. 9.FIRST SECTION. History of Spanish Poetry and Eloquence, from the Introduction of the Italian Style to the Age of Cervantes and Lope de Vega. — OCCASION OF THE INTRODUCTION OF THE ITALIAN STYLE. — BOSCAN. — GARCILASO DE LA VEGA. — DIEGO DE MENDOZA. — SAA DE MIRANDA. — MONTEMAYOR. — HERRERA. — LUIS DE LEON. — MINOR SPANISH POETS DURING THE PERIOD OF THIS SECTION, VIZ. ACUÑA—CETINA—PADILLA—GIL POLO. — OBSTACLES TO THE IMITATION OF THE ROMANTIC EPOPEE IN SPAIN—UNSUCCESSFUL ESSAYS IN SERIOUS EPOPEE—TRANSLATIONS OF CLASSICAL EPIC POETRY. — PROGRESS OF THE ROMANTIC POETRY—CASTILLEJO: HIS CONTEST WITH THE PARTIZANS OF THE ITALIAN STYLE. — HISTORY OF SPANISH DRAMATIC POETRY, DURING THE FIRST HALF AND TEN SUCCEEDING YEARS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. — HISTORY OF SPANISH PROSE DURING THE FIRST HALF AND TEN SUCCEEDING YEARS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. — SPANISH CRITICISM DURING THE PERIOD OF THIS SECTION.
10. 10.SECOND SECTION. History of Spanish Poetry and Eloquence, from the Age of Cervantes and Lope de Vega to the Middle of the Seventeenth Century. — CERVANTES. — LOPE DE VEGA. — THE BROTHERS LEONARDO DE ARGENSOLA. — CONTINUATION OF THE HISTORY OF SPANISH POETRY AND ELOQUENCE DURING THE AGE OF CERVANTES AND LOPE DE VEGA. — FRESH FAILURES IN EPIC POETRY—ERCILLA’S ARAUCANA. — LYRIC AND BUCOLIC POETS OF THE CLASSIC SCHOOL OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. — RISE OF A NEW IRREGULAR AND FANTASTICAL STYLE IN SPANISH POETRY. — GONGORA AND HIS ESTILO CULTO—THE CULTORISTOS—THE CONCEPTISTOS. — TWO DRAMATIC POETS OF THE AGE OF LOPE DE VEGA. — NOVELS IN THE AGE OF CERVANTES AND LOPE DE VEGA. — PROGRESSIVE CULTIVATION OF THE HISTORICAL ART—MARIANA. — FLUCTUATION OF SPANISH TASTE FROM THE CLASSIC TO THE CORRUPT STYLE. — QUEVEDO. — VILLEGAS. — CONTINUATION OF THE HISTORY OF LYRIC, BUCOLIC, EPIC, DIDACTIC, AND SATIRICAL POETRY, TO THE CLOSE OF THE PERIOD EMBRACED BY THIS SECTION. — JAUREGUI. — BORJA Y ESQUILLACHE. — OTHER POETS OF THIS PERIOD—THE SYLVAS, OR POETIC FORESTS. — REBOLLEDO. — CONTINUATION OF THE HISTORY OF THE SPANISH DRAMA. — CALDERON. — HISTORY OF THE SPANISH DRAMA CONTINUED TO THE CLOSE OF THE PERIOD OF THIS SECTION. — ANTONIO DE SOLIS—MORETO—JUAN DE HOZ—TIRSO DE MOLINA—FRANCISCO DE ROXAS—AUGUSTIN DE SALAZAR—MIRA DE MESCUA, &c. — CONCLUSION OF THE HISTORY OF SPANISH ELOQUENCE AND CRITICISM WITHIN THE PERIOD OF THIS SECTION. — INTRODUCTION OF GONGORISM INTO SPANISH PROSE—BALTHASAR GRACIAN.
11. 11.BOOK III. — HISTORY OF SPANISH LITERATURE FROM ITS DECLINE IN THE LATTER HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH TO THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
12. 12.CHAP. I. — GENERAL VIEW OF THE STATE OF POETICAL AND RHETORICAL CULTIVATION IN SPAIN DURING THIS PERIOD.
13. 13.CHAP. II. — DECAY OF THE OLD SPANISH POETRY AND ELOQUENCE, AND INTRODUCTION OF THE FRENCH STYLE INTO SPANISH LITERATURE. — CANDAMO, ZAMORA, AND CAÑIZARES, DRAMATISTS IN THE OLD NATIONAL STYLE. — DOÑA JUANA INEZ DE LA CRUZ. — GERARDO LOBO. — DIFFUSION OF THE FRENCH TASTE—LUZAN, HIS ART OF POETRY, &c. — MAYANS Y SISCAR—BLAS NASSARE. — MONTIANO’S TRAGEDIES IN THE FRENCH STYLE. — VELASQUEZ.
14. 14.CHAPTER III. — CONCLUDING PERIOD OF THE HISTORY OF SPANISH POETRY AND ELOQUENCE. — LA HUERTA. — SEDANO. — YRIARTE. — LEON DE ARROYAL. — JUAN MELENDEZ VALDES. — BRIEF NOTICE OF SOME OF THE MORE RECENT LITERARY PRODUCTIONS OF SPAIN. — CONCLUSION.
15. 15.ERRATA FOR VOL I.
16. 16.FOREIGN LITERATURE. PROSPECTUS OF A CIRCULATING LIBRARY, EXCLUSIVELY DEVOTED TO FOREIGN LITERATURE, By BOOSEY and SONS , FOREIGN AND ENGLISH BOOKSELLERS, 4, BROAD STREET, EXCHANGE. — CLASS I. — CLASS II. — CLASS III.
17. 17.FOOTNOTES: — LA GLOSA DE PINAR. — Mote. — Glosa de Don Jorge Manrique. — Transcriber’s Note:

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