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100 1 _aBell, Aubrey F. G.
_q(Aubrey Fitz Gerald),
_d1882-1950
245 1 4 _aThe Oxford book of Portuguese verse
246 1 _aThe Oxford book of Portuguese verse : twelfth century-twentieth century
246 1 _aThe Oxford book of Portuguese verse : 12th century-20th century
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-01-20
508 _aThe Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"The Oxford book of Portuguese verse" by Aubrey F. G. Bell is a poetry anthology written in the early 20th century. It offers a wide survey of Portuguese poetry from its medieval Galician-Portuguese roots through Renaissance, Baroque, Romantic, and modern currents, framed by a learned, scene‑setting introduction. Readers can expect a strong focus on the origins and evolution of Iberian lyric—especially the cantigas de amigo and related folk and courtly forms—alongside later classical and romantic strains. The opening of the anthology presents a dedication and an expansive introduction that traces Portuguese verse from 12th‑century Galician‑Portuguese song (contrasting imported troubadour court lyric with indigenous parallel‑strophed forms), through the Marian Cantigas of Alfonso X, the roles of King Dinis, Gil Vicente, Sá de Miranda, and Camões, and onward into Baroque gongorism, Arcadian neoclassicism, Romanticism, and early modern trends. After this survey, the selections begin with medieval pieces—barcarolas, bailadas, pastorelas, alvoradas, and cantigas de amigo—often voiced by women yearning for absent lovers amid rivers, seas, boats, dawns, dances, and pilgrimages, all marked by refrains and patterned parallelism. This opening cluster concludes with Alfonso X’s Galician hymns to the Virgin, which blend praise with miracle narratives, providing a devotional counterpoint to the secular sea‑and‑love songs that precede them. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: Clarendon Press, 1925
653 _aPortuguese poetry
856 4 _uhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015053565746&view=1up&seq=7&skin=2021
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77746
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