Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
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 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...
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...
Selected Works of Gustavo A. Becquer
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
