by Jorge Manrique · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437600611
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«Poesía» is the poetry collection by Jorge Manrique, published by Ediciones Cátedra in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
Jorge Manrique cultivated love and courtly poetry within the lyricism of the fifteenth century, but his fame rests on the Coplas a la muerte de su padre: forty stanzas of pie quebrado that meditate on the transience of life and constitute a tribute of filial piety.
It belongs to the Letras Hispánicas collection (no. 38), edited by Jesús-Manuel Alda Tesán.
Suitable for philologists, students, and readers interested in Hispanic poetry who wish to revisit a fifteenth-century classic.
Jorge Manrique was a major Castilian poet, whose main work, the Coplas por la muerte de su padre , is still read today. He was a supporter of the queen Isabel I of Castile, and actively participated on her side in the civil war that broke out against her half-brother, Enrique IV, when the latter attempted to make his daughter, Juana, crown princess. Jorge died in 1479 during an attempt to take the castle of Garcimuñoz, defended by the Marquis of Villena, after Isabel gained the crown.
