Julio Baena
El poemario de Fray Luis de León.
Peter Lang, 1989. American University Studies, Series II Romance Languages and Literature, Vol. 107. 0820410152 x/232 pages.
Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9", dislays light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and bright.
"The rhetorical construction of the whole, or "poemario," from the lesser units, or poems, is the subject under study in "El poemario de Fray Luis de Leon." A surplus of meaning emerges from the whole, not being equal -- dialectically speaking -- to the sum of he parts, in this iece of applied theoretical insight. The collection of poems is viewed as a brain-child of this sixteenth Century intellectual and theologian, an expert on biblical translation and philosophical discussion. A close look at the relation between text-production and text-reading minimizes the traditional difference between "original" and "translated" poetry."