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The Dramatic Imagination of Robert Browning offers an accessible and authoritative guide to the essentials of Robert Browning's life and poetry. Drawing from his personal letters and from the diaries and memoirs of his contemporaries, this literary biography provides a wealth of information about the main events of his life, including the social, political, religious, and aesthetic issues that concerned him; it offers critical commentary defining the central characteristics of his poetry; and it tracks the changes in his reputation through contemporary reviews and the growth of the Browning...

Conquistadores sintetiza la empresa exploradora de América a través de doce figuras que encarnan el espíritu de aventura de toda una época. Hernán Cortés o Francisco Pizarro comparten estas páginas con figuras menos conocidas como Inés Suárez o Gonzalo Guerrero. Mediante breves capítulos, Javier Diéguez nos acerca a las condiciones y motivaciones de estos personajes, sus contradicciones, los peligros que arrostraron y las razones de su celebridad. Una obra que, sin eludir las sombras consustanciales del período, arroja una luz sobre los beneficios y el legado del encuentro entre...

José Martí (1853–1895) was the founding hero of Cuban independence. In all of modern Latin American history, arguably only the “Great Liberator” Simón Bolívar rivals Martí in stature and legacy. Beyond his accomplishments as a revolutionary and political thinker, Martí was a giant of Latin American letters, whose poetry, essays, and journalism still rank among the most important works of the region. Today he is revered by both the Castro regime and the Cuban exile community, whose shared veneration of the “apostle” of freedom has led to his virtual apotheosis as a national...

«Adiós, voy a encontrarme conmigo mismo.» Como en Anatomía de la melancolía de Robert Burton, hay una biblioteca personal en este libro, en él desfilan maestros antiguos y modernos, visiones míticas, místicas y cabalísticas; sabidurías orientales y occidentales. En El testamento del Dragón aparecen aforismos, antiaforismos y metaforismos, citas propias y ajenas, opinionessociales, morales y ecológicas; herencias poéticas grecolatinas, hispánicas y europeas, fragmentos de presocráticos, discursos prestados y discursos propios. Como en el caso similar de Erasmo, quien diciendo...