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EL ESTUDIANTE
DE SALAMANCA
AND OTHER SELECTIONS
ESPRONCEDA
EDITED BY
GEORGE TYLER NORTHUP, PH.D.
PROFESSOR OF SPANISH LITERATURE
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
PREFACE
The selections from Espronceda included in this volume have been edited for the benefit of advanced Spanish classes in schools and universities. The study of Espronceda, Spain's greatest Romantic poet, offers the best possible approach to the whole subject of Romanticism. He is Spain's "representative man" in that movement. Furthermore, the wealth o
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Poetry by José de Espronceda, Translated by Adam Sedia
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Sonnet
by José de Espronceda (1808-1842) | translated from Spanish by Adam Sedia
Fresh, lush, pure, and perfumed luxuriantly,
The blooming garden’s flair and ornament,
Coxcomb perched on the stem’s filament,
The budding rose-bloom sets its fragrance free.
But if the burning sun stirs angrily,
Shines flaming in the dog-days’ firmament,
It loses both its color and sweet scent,
Its heat-beleaguered leaves droop languidly.
Thus for one moment’s flash my fortune burned
Borne high on love’s fair wings, at once I feigned
The beauteous clouds of glory and of mirth.
But, ah! The blessings that were mine have turned
To bitterness; now wind-blasted and drained,
My hope’s sweet flower rises in rebirth.
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Revolutions of the Globe
Lyric Fragment
by José de Espronceda (1808-1842) | translated by Adam Sedia
A thousand centuries rolled
upon the world in column-shafts of fire
and the terrified world,
in presage of its fall, saw half of this
creation out of nowhere fast expire,
drowned in the deep abyss.
The poles buckled beneath
the giant hurricane
wielding its immense hand; the wanderer
amidst volcanic bitumen in vain
already pulverizes the debris
of Etna, in the pallid ash to see
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