The Literature of the Spanish People Author:Gerald Brenan "In a single volume [this book] surveys the literature of the Spaniards from its Latin beginnings to the writers born before 1890, and surveys it in a manner that will satisfy and stimulate those with a previous knowledge of the subject, give new ideas to students specializing in one of the other aspects of Spanish literature, and convey a sense... more » of excited sympathy in readers who have never read any of the Spanish authors under discussion." - The Times Literary Supplement
"Whether one turns to the pages of Cervantes, or on the dramatists, to the discussion of Arabic influences on the earliest poetry, or to the section devoted to that very great and neglected novelist Perez Galdos, one finds the evidence of a fine palate for literature and an easy familiarity with current scholarship. This should be the standard work on its subject for many years to come." - Observer
For readers not fluent in Spanish, excerpts from the original Spanish are accompanied with English translations. Chapters are arranged chronologically, beginning with "The Roman and Visigoth Periods", The Arab Period", and "The Early Middle Ages", and ending with "The Eighteenth Century", Nineteenth-century Poetry and Poetic Drama", "Nineteenth-century Prose", and "The Twentieth Century".« less