by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · Unidad Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401590139
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«Rimas» is Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer's poetry collection in paperback (83 pages, in Spanish).
A central poetry collection of late Spanish Romanticism, with short, intimate verses on love, disillusionment, and the mystery of poetic creation. Includes «Volverán las oscuras golondrinas» and «¿Qué es poesía?», and Bécquer's style influenced later authors such as Machado and Cernuda.
The edition dates from 1998 and is part of the «Lenguaje y Comunicación» collection (no. 24). The selection was prepared by Ana María Moix.
For readers of classic Spanish poetry and Romanticism, and for anyone wanting to discover an essential work of 19th-century literature.
Gustavo Adolfo Claudio Domínguez Bastida, better known as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, was a Spanish Romantic poet and writer, also a playwright, literary columnist, and talented in drawing. He is one of the most important figures in Spanish literature, with some considering him the most read Spanish writer after Miguel de Cervantes. He adopted the alias of Bécquer as his brother Valeriano Bécquer, a painter, had done earlier. He was associated with the romanticism and post-romanticism movements and wrote while realism enjoyed success in Spain. He was moderately well-known during his life, but it was after his death that most of his works were published. His best-known works are the Rhymes and the Legends, usually published together as Rimas y leyendas. These poems and tales are essential to studying Spanish literature and common reading for high-school students in Spanish-speaking countries.
