The protagonist writes down three dates, the first corresponds to a vision of a mysterious woman, the same, finding herself hidden behind some curtains, manages to be seen by the narrator of the legend, who begins to become obsessed with her. The second date refers to the protagonist's return to Toledo, when in search of inspiration he finds a convent. From one of the windows a hand that greeted him. The hand disappears and he never sees it again. The third date corresponds to his third vi...

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (Seville, 1836-Madrid, 1870), was a poet, romantic narrator and precursor of the best contemporary poetry. The Rhymes and Legends of him is his best known work, which includes the devil's cross

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Spanish literature generally refers to literature written in the Spanish language within the territory that presently constitutes the state of Spain. Its development coincides and frequently intersects with that of other literary traditions from regions within the same territory, particularly Catalan literature, Galician intersects as well with Latin, Jewish, and Arabic literary traditions of the Iberian peninsula. In this book, the critic August Nemo brings to readers a rich selection of ...

The Big Christmas Basket gathers more than two hundred illustrated novels, tales, poems, and carols into a capacious archive of Christmas writing. Its range extends from devotional lyric and traditional seasonal song to domestic realism, fairy tale, comic anecdote, moral fable, ghostly fantasy, and cosmopolitan short fiction. Canonical Victorian and Romantic modes meet children's literature, American regionalism, and European storytelling, making the volume a vivid record of how Christmas ...

Gustavo Adolfo Domínguez Bastida, better known as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, (February 17, 1836, Seville - December 22, 1870) was a Spanish post-romanticist writer of poetry and short stories, now considered one of the most important figures in Spanish literature. He adopted the alias of Bécquer as his brother Valeriano Bécquer, a painter, had done earlier. He was associated with the post-romanticism movement and wrote while realism was enjoying success in Spain. He was moderately well known ...

The mount of the soulsis a short story written by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and published in 1861 in a collection of stories by the author entitled Soria. The legend told in this story shows us the events that happened to Alonso, a young man who tried to please his cousin Beatriz on All Saints' Day or All Souls' Night (November 1). Beatriz was a really beautiful young woman, with blue eyes and beautiful lips, who had lost her bond on the mountain of souls. She asks her cousin to go l...

He tells us that one day he was walking through the quiet streets of Seville when, for no apparent reason, he decided to enter the San Jerónimo neighborhood. There were some merchants who were full of joy, everyone sang and there was a wonderful atmosphere.When he was about to leave the fair, a young man arrived, he asked him to please give him the photo of his beloved. Bécquer agreed and the boy recognized the portrait of the young woman immediately, told him that it was Amparo, a ...

The green eyesis a story written by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and published in 1861 in his book of Legends. The main theme is about the legend of the female spirits of the waters. Íñigo is hunting together with his master Fernando and they wound a deer, which, wounded, flees to a place called Fuente de los Álamos. There, the legend tells that an evil spirit is around, so Íñigo warns his master of the danger and that they must leave the prey, but Fernando decides to go looking for the...

A minstrel narrates the burial in a grove of a young woman whose body protrudes an unburied hand, as a sign of her fiancé's failure to make her his wife. Upon hearing this story, a count went to the minstrel to ask him where that story was told. Upon learning from the troubadour that she was originally from Gómara, in the province of Soria, the nobleman became livid, a sign that the minstrel interpreted as meaning that the story told affected him personally. Indeed, according to the testim...

In preparing this collection of Becquer's legends, tales, and short poems, which is the only annotated edition of this author's works that has been published as yet for English-speaking students, the editor has aimed to give to our schools and colleges a book that may serve, not only as a reader for first or second year classes, but also as an introduction to Spanish literature, through the works of one of the most original and charming authors of the Spanish Romantic school. Fondness for ...

The late Romantic poet Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer is considered one of the first modern Spanish poets. His ‘Rimas’ (Rhymes) are celebrated for their sensitive, restrained and deeply subjective quality. Bécquer’s poetry tackles themes of love, disillusionment and loneliness, while exploring the mysteries of life and poetry. In contrast to the rhetorical and dramatic style of the Romantic period, Bécquer’s lyricism, in which assonance predominates, is simple and airy. The Delphi Poets Se...