Spanish epic, romance, legend, devotional memory, and literary traditions from Iberian and related worlds.
Folders
Prose Fiction — Spanish-language prose fiction, beginning here with Cervantes's complete Don Quixote in John Ormsby's English translation. (1)
Pages
Glossary — A shelf-specific glossary starter for the Spanish shelf.
Introduction to Spanish Literature — A source-critical doorway into the current Spanish literature shelf: the Cid poem, Spence's romance survey, and both parts of Cervantes's Don Quixote in historical English translation.
Legends and Romances of Spain — Lewis Spence — Legends and Romances of Spain — Lewis Spence's 1920 study of Spanish legend and medieval romance: the Cantares de Gesta, the Poema del Cid, Amadis de Gaul, the Romanceros, Moorish romances, and the folk tales of Spanish magic and sorcery.
The Lay of the Cid — R. Selden Rose and Leonard Bacon — The oldest surviving Spanish epic — El Cid's exile, conquest of Valencia, and vindication. Verse translation by R. Selden Rose and Leonard Bacon, University of California Press, 1919.