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Los Poemas de Francisco de Rioja son el testimonio intelectual de uno de los grandes poetas y eruditos del Barroco Sevillano. Francisco de Rioja formó parte del entorno del conde duque Olivares y de otros hombres poderosos de la España del siglo XVI.

"Completed in 1922, the same year as the publication of Eliot's The Waste Land, the Elegies constitute a magnificent godless poem in their rejection of the transcendent and their passionate celebration of the here and now. Troubled by our insecure place in this world and our fractured relationship with death, the Elegies are nevertheless populated by a throng of vivid and affecting figures: acrobats, lovers, angels, mothers, fathers, statues, salesman, actors and children. This bilingual edition offers twenty-first century readers a new opportunity to experience the power of Rilke's enduring...

Suena a grito de entusiasmo, retórico y casi especulativo, de alguien que en plena madurez habría encontrado su modo absoluto de expresión artística, si por poesía, se entiende la que acarrea también, inherente y de raíz, la propia música o la música que precisa la poesía hasta convertirse en arte sonoro.

A selection of poetry by Francisco Brines, Spain’s most eminent living poet. A fully bilingual text with preface. In November 2020 Brines was awarded the prestigious Cervantes Prize for Literature, widely regarded as equivalent to the Nobel, for a ‘poetic work that goes from the carnal and the purely human to the metaphysical, to the spiritual, towards an aspiration of beauty and immortality’, according to the jury. Translation was supported by the Ministry of Culture in Spain. Una selección de la poesía de Francisco Brines, el poeta contemporáneo español más importante. Todos los...