The Siege of Valencia: A Parallel Text EditionBroadview Press, 2002 M09 19 - 315 pages This parallel text edition of Felicia Hemans’s important dramatic poem presents the 1823 publication alongside a transcription of the original manuscript, offering a unique glimpse at her compositional process. Situated in medieval Spain, in the heat of Moorish-Christian conflicts, this complex political tragedy is both a rich historical narrative and a commentary by the poet on her own post-Napoleonic world. The Broadview edition also includes selections of related poetry, excerpts from source texts, and contemporary reviews. |
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... Christian city on Spain's Mediterranean coast . Her drama involves the passions of several overlapping but not fully congruent conflicts : Spain versus Africa ; Christian versus Islam , with a racial overlay ( the manuscript shows a ...
... Christian city on Spain's Mediterranean coast . Her drama involves the passions of several overlapping but not fully congruent conflicts : Spain versus Africa ; Christian versus Islam , with a racial overlay ( the manuscript shows a ...
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... Christian soldiers- -argues for steadfast faith amid crisis and would seem to refute any murmurings of dissent . But the programmatic devices and the artifice of rescue seem inadequate to the ruptures these would contain . The chief ...
... Christian soldiers- -argues for steadfast faith amid crisis and would seem to refute any murmurings of dissent . But the programmatic devices and the artifice of rescue seem inadequate to the ruptures these would contain . The chief ...
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... Christian Spain - fathers behave with disturbing consistency , especially in the martyrdom of sons : " the sons of Afric " revere patriarch Abraham , who would sacrifice his son to divine command ; the sons of Spain revere the legacy of ...
... Christian Spain - fathers behave with disturbing consistency , especially in the martyrdom of sons : " the sons of Afric " revere patriarch Abraham , who would sacrifice his son to divine command ; the sons of Spain revere the legacy of ...
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... Christian count of Barcelona . When a zealous force of North African Moors , the Almoravides , invaded Spain , ousting weak Moor- ish rulers and threatening Christian ones , El Cid was restored to Alfonso's favor — but not for long ...
... Christian count of Barcelona . When a zealous force of North African Moors , the Almoravides , invaded Spain , ousting weak Moor- ish rulers and threatening Christian ones , El Cid was restored to Alfonso's favor — but not for long ...
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... Christian Castile , an opponent of Moorish expan- sion , Ximena his worthy mate . These " romances , " first collected in the sixteenth century , inspired Guillén de Castro's drama Mocedades del Cid ( 1618 ) , the source of Pierre ...
... Christian Castile , an opponent of Moorish expan- sion , Ximena his worthy mate . These " romances , " first collected in the sixteenth century , inspired Guillén de Castro's drama Mocedades del Cid ( 1618 ) , the source of Pierre ...
Contents
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The Siege of Valencia A Parallel Text | 37 |
Songs of the Cid | 241 |
The Chieftains Son | 253 |
From Songs of Spain | 255 |
From Poema del Cid | 257 |
From Robert Southeys Chronicle of the Cid | 262 |
Letters by Felicia Dorothea Browne later Hemans 180809 | 286 |
Reviews and Receptions | 288 |
Bibliography | 314 |
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Common terms and phrases
ABDULLAH Alfonso Almoravides ALPHONSO arms aught ballad banner battle bear beneath blood brave breath bright brow Castile Chorley Christian Cid's CITIZEN Convention of Cintra dark dead death deep doth e'en Earth El Cid ELMINA Ev'n fair faith father fearful Felicia Felicia Browne Felicia Hemans FH's flowers GARCIAS glorious glory GONSALVO GONZALEZ grief hand hast thou hath hear heard heart Heaven Hemans Hemans's HERNANDEZ honour hope hour Jerome McGann Joanna Baillie King Bucar lances land live look look'd mighty Moorish Moors mother ne'er night noble o'er passionate poem poetry pour'd proud rest Rio Verde Roncesvalles scene scorn Siege of Valencia song sons soul sound Southey Spain Spanish speak spears spirit steed strength sword tell thee things thou hast thought thro Tizona unto victory voice warriors wild winds wouldst Ximena ΙΟ ΧΙΜΕΝΑ