by Jacinto Verdaguer · ISBN 9788445903414
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«L'Atlàntida» is the epic poem by Jacinto Verdaguer, published by Editors in a bilingual Catalan-Spanish edition of 423 pages.
The poem delves into the legend of Atlantis to explain, from mythology and sacred history, the birth of Catalan culture. Verdaguer weaves biblical, classical and legendary episodes with powerful imagery, in a narrative that moves between the catastrophe of the vanished continent and the emergence of a new civilization in the Mediterranean.
1995 edition with the text in Catalan and Spanish on facing pages. The work was originally published in 1877.
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".
