by Jacint Verdaguer · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429714579
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«L'Atlàntida» is the epic poem by Catalan writer Jacint Verdaguer, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (160 pages, in Catalan).
The poem narrates Hercules' adventures across the Iberian Peninsula, the sinking of the continent of Atlantis and the creation of the Mediterranean Sea. A young Christopher Columbus, after a shipwreck, hears from a hermit the story of Atlantis; the poem's close anticipates the discovery of America.
Work originally published in 1877. This Catalan edition, from 1979, belongs to the Les Millors Obres de la Literatura Catalana collection (number 6); the cover bears the 7th edition.
Work for readers of classical poetry and Catalan literature, with special interest in the Renaixença and 19th-century epic.
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".
