by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · Espasa Calpe · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423974030
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«Rimas y leyendas» is the volume of poetry and legends by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, published by Espasa Calpe in paperback (387 pages, in Spanish).
The work brings together the Rimas, poems about love, death and nature, and the Leyendas, tales of mystery and fantasy. It belongs to Spanish Romanticism and stands out for its symbolic and evocative language, combining lyrical intimacy with popular narrative tradition.
The 1997 edition belongs to the Austral Collection and includes a reading guide by Francisco López Estrada and María Teresa López García-Berdoy.
For readers of Spanish classics and literature students who want an annotated edition.
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.
