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Luis De León, The Spanish Poet, Humanist, and Mystic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

J. D. M. Ford
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In the domain of Spanish letters, where the earnest student of literary history still finds himself lacking many necessary tools, there is a crying need of a new and critical edition of the works, and particularly the poetical works, of the monk Luis de León. One of the greatest of the Castilian lyric poets,—and, as such, a fellow to Garcilaso de la Vega and Herrera,—one of the most eminent among the masters of flexible and harmonious Spanish prose, which flows from his pen with none of the customary turgidness, he is best represented to-day only by the meritorious but rare edition of his works published by Merino in the early years of this century, and by the unsatisfactory edition of the Biblioteca de autores españoles, Tome XXXVII, which has not made the proper use of Merino's collection.

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , 1899 , pp. 267 - 278
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1899

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Note 1 in page 267 The writer of the present sketch is preparing a monograph upon the life and work of León, and hopes, also, soon to render all his lyrics easily accessible in a new edition.

Note 1 in page 269 Sedano (Parnaso español, v, p. xviii, Madrid, 1771) already connects him with the antiguos Ponces de Leon, Señores de Marchena.

Note 1 in page 272 His knowledge of these two writers was probably derived from the Anthology of Stobaeus.

Note 1 in page 273 Epistolarum, Lib. I, Ep. xviii, v. 9:

Virtus est medium vitiorum, et utrinque reductum.

Note 1 in page 274 It is of interest to note that Milton, in his Seasons for Church Government, also considers the Song of Solomon a pastoral poem.

Note 2 in page 274 The last two are not free from some doubt in their attribution to León.

Note 1 in page 276 Bib. de autores esp., xxxvii, p. 7.

Note 2 in page 276 Ibid., p. 8.

Note 3 in page 276 Bib. de autores esp., xxxvii, p. 3.

Note 4 in page 276 Ibid., p. 8.

Note 5 in page 276 Ibid., p. 3.

Note 6 in page 276 Ibid., p. 6.

Note 1 in page 277 Bib. de autores esp., xxxvii, p. 5.

Note 2 in page 277 Ibid., p. 11.

Note 3 in page 277 Carminum, Lib. i, 15.