by Jacint Verdaguer · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429716801
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Canigó» is the epic poem by Jacint Verdaguer, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (160 pages, in Catalan).
Epic poem set around the year 1000 that recreates the legendary origins of Catalonia. Between the warlike feats of Count Tallaferro and the spell of the fairies that surrounds the young Gentil, Verdaguer unfolds an idealized vision of the Pyrenees and combines legend, religion and patriotic exaltation in verses of great narrative breadth.
Work originally published in 1886; this 1981 edition is the first in the collection Les Millors Obres de la Literatura Catalana, number 52.
Recommended for readers interested in epic poetry, Catalan literature and classics of the Renaixença.
Jacint Verdaguer i Santaló was a Spanish writer and priest, regarded as one of the greatest poets of Catalan literature and a prominent literary figure of the Renaixença, a cultural revival movement of the late Romantic era. The bishop Josep Torras i Bages, one of the main figures of Catalan nationalism, called him the "Prince of Catalan poets". He was also known as mossèn (Father) Cinto Verdaguer, because of his career as a priest, and informally also simply "mossèn Cinto".
