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Spanish can be learnt from books, tapes, courses and CDs, available at multilingual, worldlanguage, arthur lynn, rosetta stone, language quest, pimsleur, accelerated learning, spanish uno and unforgettable languages.

Free lessons and material are at learnspanishtoday, studyspanish, spanishromance, word2word, spanish unlimited, language learning library and search language.

Other works, dictionaries, etc. can be ordered through grant and cutler, bestbookbuys, abebooks and alibris.

Spanish-English-Spanish online dictionaries are at multilingual books, word2word, dictionary.com, prompt online, lexilogos and 1-800 translate.

Machine translation can be helpful, though you will need some grammar to correct the rendering: omnilang, free translation, ibm, google, babelfish, systran, worldlingo, prompt and reverso.

Some useful language exchanges: friends abroad, xlingo, mylanguage exchange, polyglot learn language, and lingozone.

Spanish Poetry

Good sites for Spanish literature generally are Spanish literature links, Spanish arts, cultura, poesia castellana and los poetas.

Lope de Vega

Information on Lope de Vega can be found at moonstruck, poesia infantil and books and writers.

Good bibliographies for Lope de Vega are found at books and writers, and in the Spanish Poetry section of The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (1993). These may be particularly useful: E. Pierce's The Heroic Poem of the Spanish Golden Age (1947), P.D. Tettenborn's Spanish Lyrics of the Golden Age (1952), Rennert and Castro's Vida de Lope de Vega (1919), F. Rico's Historia y Critica de la Literatura Española (1980) and F.J. Oinas's Heroic Epic and Saga (1978).

Bécquer

Information on Bécquer can be found at hispanic literature, glaves, Spanish literary masters, mai-liis, marieb, ligloss, moonbeam, amediavos, costa, european literature in translation and aaronson.

Poets of Bécquer's period and following: Rosalía de Castro, Jacinto Verdaguer, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Frederico Lorca, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillén, Francisco Casas y Amigó, Joan Maragall, Rubió y Ors, M. Costa y Llobera and Núñez de Arce.

Translations in book form include Young Alison's The infinite passion, being the celebrated Rimas and the Letters to an unknown woman of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer (1924) Rupert Croft-Cooke's Twenty Poems from the Spanish of Bécquer, With an Introductory Note on his Life and Work (1927), Arthur Wallace Woolsey's The witch of Trazmoz & other stories and poems. Translated from the Spanish of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1965), David and Joan Altabé's Symphony of love: las Rimas; a translation. (1974), Susanne Dubroff's Flower on a Volcano (1980), Bruce Phenix's The Rimas of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1985) and Henry W. Sullivan's The Poems of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer: A Metrical Linear Translation (2002).

Darío

Information on Dario is listed on thinkquest, dariana, modern languages, 00author, nicanews, thinkquest, amazon, emory, costarica, amorpostales, analytica, Los poetas, beauty and ruin and biblioteca modernista.

Individual poems: Azul, Prosas profanes y otras poemas, Cantos de vida y esperanza, Poema del otono y otros poemas and Canto a la Argentina y otros poemas

A good introduction is provided by the Spanish American Poetry section of The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (1993), and these take matters further: K. Ellis's Critical Approaches to Rubén Darío (1974). and I. Gibson's Yo, Rubén Darío: Memorias Postumas de un Rey de la Poesía (2002) The bibliography of Rubén Darío is vast, much of it in Spanish and/or Latin American journals, but a start is provided by H. Woodbridge's Rubén Darío: a Selective and Annotated Bibliography (1975).

Modernismo poets: José Martí, Olegario Andrade, Rafael Obligado, Leopold Lugones, Luis Urbina, Rufino Blanco Fombona, Ricardo Jaimes Freyre, Guillermo Valencia, José Santos Chacano, José María Eguren, Manuel Magallanes Moure, Carlos Pezoa Véliz and Enrique González Martínez.

 

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