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by Frank A. Domínguez (Author)
Jorge Manrique was the greatest poet of fifteenth-century Castile and one of the three or four greatest in Spanish literature. Frank A. Domínguez offers here an introduction to Manrique's poetry and the first book-length study of him in English in fifty years. After presenting the biographical and historical context of Manrique's poetry, Domínguez examines the poet's love lyrics, describing the large fund of commonplaces and forms that Manrique's verses share with those of other poets of his
Author Biography
Frank A. Domínguez is associate professor of Romance languages in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of a critical edition of El Cancionero de obras de burlas provocantes a risa and of The Medieval Argonautica.
