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Selected Works of Gustavo A. Becquer (1904)
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Delphi Collected Works of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (Illustrated)
The late Romantic poet Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer is considered one of the first modern Spanish poets. His ‘Rimas’ (Rhymes) are celebrated for their sensitive, restrained and deeply subjective quality. Bécquer’s poetry tackles themes of love, disillusionment and loneliness, while exploring the mysteries of life and poetry. In contrast to the rhetorical and dramatic style of the Romantic period, Bécquer’s lyricism, in which assonance predominates, is simple and airy. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature’s finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Bécquer’s collected works, with related illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. ...
Poems of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Excerpt from Poems of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer To Manual De Santa Maria. The soft strings of a Spanish lute one day You struck, and plaintive notes gushed forth like tears. Ravished I listened, and I longed to play The music to another people's ears. You showed me all the cunning workmanship, The stretching of the strings, the exquisite Adjustment of the frets, the body's dip; I took the lute and tried to copy it. Well, here it is, re-fashioned and re-strung. Play on it; ah, I fear those sweet, sad airs Sound cracked and harsh now, better left unsung. Well, fling the lute aside and take Becquer's! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. F...
Poems of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Poems of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer San Telmo, where he remained but a short time. His godmother then determined to make a merchant of him, and directed his studies accordingly; but reading books was much more to his taste than keeping books, and he turned his uninteresting ledgers into sketch-books with much skill and humour. Encouraged by the success of his early verses, he determined to enter the arena of literature, and fight there for fame and fortune with an independence and strength of will astonishing in one so frail in health, so sweet and amiable in temperament. So, in 1854, against the wishes of his guardian, and sacrificing the prospects of the fortune she intended to le...
