The Siege of Valencia: A Parallel Text Edition

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Broadview 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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Contents

Acknowledgments
6
Introduction
7
A Brief Chronology
29
Editorial Procedures
34
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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Susan J. Wolfson is a Professor of English at Princeton University.

Elizabeth Fay is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

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