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Title

Poem of the Cid : a modern translation with notes by Paul Blackburn / edited with a foreword by George Economou ; introduction by Luis Cortest.

Publication

Norman : University Of Oklahoma Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Blackburn, Paul.
• Economou, George.

Description

xvi, 175 pages; 23 cm

Summary

• Few works have shaped a national literature as thoroughly as the Poem of the Cid has shaped the Spanish literary tradition. Tracing the life of the eleventh-century military commander Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, called the Cid (from the Arabic Sayyidi, "My Lord"), this medieval epic describes a series of events surrounding his exile.
• The text of the poem survives in only one early thirteenth-century manuscript copied by a single scribe, yet centuries later the figure of the Cid still was celebrated in the Spanish popular ballad tradition. Today almost every theme that characterizes Spanish literature - honor, justice, loyalty, treachery, and jealousy - derives from the Poem of the Cid.
• Restored by poet and medievalist George Economou, this elegant and spirited translation by Paul Blackburn is judged by many the finest English translation of a great medieval poem.

Uniform Title

• Cantar de mío Cid. English.
• Cid (Epic cycle)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references p. 175.

Contents

Translator's Preface / Paul Blackburn -- Foreword / George Economou -- Introduction / Luis Cortest -- The First Cantar: The Cid's Exile -- The Second Cantar: The Wedding of the Cid's Daughters -- The Third Cantar: The Atrocity at Corpes.

ISBN

• 0806130210 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0806130229 (paper)

LCCN

97043704

OCLC

• 37955497
• ocm37955497

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries