The Velazquez Christ: Poem [Paperback]

Miguel de Unamuno (Author), William Thomas Little (Translator)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 2002 | ISBN-10: 0761822860 | ISBN-13: 978-0761822868

This book is a new translation, in contemporary English, of Miguel de Unamuno's 1920 masterpiece book-length poem about another masterpiece of Western Civilization, Diego Velázquez's "The Christ of San Plácido," which is commonly known as "The Christ of Velázquez." The translation by William Thomas Little is accompanied by a full scholarly introduction and poem-by-poem commentary. Unamuno, Spain's foremost public intellectual of the early twentieth century, considered this book his masterpiece. This is a book of poetry and religious devotion as well as an ekphrasis, that is, a detail-by-detail meditation on one of the world's greatest paintings. Composed of eighty-nine poems that are fully integrated one with the other, the result is a masterpiece of spiritual meditation via poetical expression.

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Spanish

About the Author

William Thomas Little is Professor of Spanish at California Polytechnic State University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: University Press Of America (August 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761822860
• ISBN-13: 978-0761822868
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,104,970 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)