by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · Rueda · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788487507588
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«Rimas y Leyendas» is the poetry and legends anthology by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, published by Rueda in paperback (200 pages, in Spanish).
It brings together the Rimas, short poems about love, illusion, disillusionment and poetry itself, and the Leyendas, stories set in Spain where the supernatural slips into everyday life. Bécquer writes in a style that seems simple but is highly crafted, and his prose and verse retain the melancholy and mystery of Romanticism.
The book, published in 1996, is part of the Clásicos de la literatura española collection and includes a selection and introduction by Arturo Ramoneda.
The book is suitable for school reading and for those wishing to approach Bécquer as a central figure of Spanish Romanticism.
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.
