Book contents
- A History of Mexican Poetry
- A History of Mexican Poetry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Practice of Epic and Lyric Writing in Colonial Mexico
- Chapter 2 La lírica del Fénix: Sor Juana’s Poetic Legacy
- Chapter 3 The Sound of the Word: Music and Social Transgression in Lyric Poetry from the Colonia Onward
- Chapter 4 We, the Romantics
- Chapter 5 Sentimental Sociabilities: The Young Romantics and Their Long-Lived Widows
- Chapter 6 Modernismo’s Strategic Occidentalism: Notes on Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera, Amado Nervo, and José Juan Tablada
- Chapter 7 The Crepusculars: Criollo Modernism and the Invention of the Literary Province
- Chapter 8 Poesía en voz alta: A Trajectory of Poetry and Performance in México
- Chapter 9 The Great Synthesis of the Critical Poets: The Rise of Octavio Paz
- Chapter 10 Octavio Paz and the Institutions of Poetry
- Chapter 11 The Form That Contains Multitudes: The Mexican Long Poem (1924–2020)
- Chapter 12 Radical Freedoms: Neobaroque, Postpoetry
- Chapter 13 The Age of Anthology
- Chapter 14 Twentieth-Century Mexican Poetry: The Popular and the Political
- Chapter 15 Poetry in Indigenous Languages: From the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries
- Chapter 16 Chicanx Poetry: The Living Lyric
- Chapter 17 Racimos: Dissonances in Mexican Poetry of Today
- Index
- References
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2024
Book contents
- A History of Mexican Poetry
- A History of Mexican Poetry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Practice of Epic and Lyric Writing in Colonial Mexico
- Chapter 2 La lírica del Fénix: Sor Juana’s Poetic Legacy
- Chapter 3 The Sound of the Word: Music and Social Transgression in Lyric Poetry from the Colonia Onward
- Chapter 4 We, the Romantics
- Chapter 5 Sentimental Sociabilities: The Young Romantics and Their Long-Lived Widows
- Chapter 6 Modernismo’s Strategic Occidentalism: Notes on Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera, Amado Nervo, and José Juan Tablada
- Chapter 7 The Crepusculars: Criollo Modernism and the Invention of the Literary Province
- Chapter 8 Poesía en voz alta: A Trajectory of Poetry and Performance in México
- Chapter 9 The Great Synthesis of the Critical Poets: The Rise of Octavio Paz
- Chapter 10 Octavio Paz and the Institutions of Poetry
- Chapter 11 The Form That Contains Multitudes: The Mexican Long Poem (1924–2020)
- Chapter 12 Radical Freedoms: Neobaroque, Postpoetry
- Chapter 13 The Age of Anthology
- Chapter 14 Twentieth-Century Mexican Poetry: The Popular and the Political
- Chapter 15 Poetry in Indigenous Languages: From the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries
- Chapter 16 Chicanx Poetry: The Living Lyric
- Chapter 17 Racimos: Dissonances in Mexican Poetry of Today
- Index
- References
Summary
The roots of Mexican poetry wend out from many traditions. Indigenous epic and lyric poetry survive in early modern works that simultaneously preserved and overwrote them. They subtly informed the practice of Mexican poetry in subsequent centuries and reemerged in full voice in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Diverse poetic practices stemming from both popular and learned traditions were introduced by Spaniards into Mexico over three centuries of viceregal rule in New Spain. European languages, ranging from classical to vernacular, brought their respective forms and traditions to the Mexican poetic radix: Latin and Greek; Italian and then – centrally – French; and later English, with the stems of Portuguese and German traditions grafted on.
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