The Velazquez Christ: Poem
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This book is a new translation, in contemporary English, of Miguel de Unamuno's 1920 masterpiece book-length poem about another masterpiece of Western Civilization, Diego Vel zquez's "The Christ of San Pl cido," which is commonly known as "The Christ of Vel zquez." The translation by William Thomas Little is accompanied by a full scholarly introduction and poem-by-poem commentary. Unamuno, Spain's foremost public intellectual of the early twentieth century, considered this book his masterpiece. This is a book of poetry and religious devotion as well as an ekphrasis, that is, a detail-by-detail meditation on one of the world's greatest paintings. Composed of eighty-nine poems that are fully integrated one with the other, the result is a masterpiece of spiritual meditation via poetical expression.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0761822860
ISBN13:9780761822868
Release Date:June 2002
Publisher:University Press of America
Length:416 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
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