by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · ISBN 9788427311800
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«Rimas y leyendas» is Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer's collection of poems and legends, published by Mensajero in 1979 (228 pages, in Spanish).
The work brings together the Rimas, brief lyric compositions dealing with love, disillusionment, and poetic creation, along with the Leyendas, tales of mystery and fantasy set in medieval settings. Bécquer displays an intimate, evocative style, and the collection belongs to nineteenth-century Spanish literature.
The original work was published in 1871 and has been translated into numerous languages.
Recommended reading for students of Spanish literature and for those who appreciate poetry and fantasy tales.
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.
