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Appendix A - Five Centuries at a Glance: A Selection of Comments about the Coplas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2013

Nancy F. Marino
Affiliation:
Michigan State University
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Summary

The following quotations will serve as a summary of the reception of Jorge Manrique's poem across the more than five hundred years since its first circulation around the time of his death in 1479.

Poco antes [de morir] había divulgado … unos versos de sentido más profundo que su educación y años requerían, llenos de maravillosa suavidad.

(Alfonso de Palencia, Cuarta Década, c. 1490–92)

Tão necessario era a hum homem sabellas, como saber o Pater noster.

(Garcia de Resende, Crónica de dom João II, c. 1495)

El famoso y docto caballero y católico poeta don Jorxe Manrique, comendador de Montizón, que hizo aquella obra que había de estar escrita con letras de oro … obra, por cierto, notable y de poeta cristiano y de grande y saludable doctrina y especial aviso para enmendar la vida.

(Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, Batallas y quinquagenas, c. 1526–35)

Y son mejores las de don Jorge Manrique que comiençan Recuerde el almadormida, las cuales a mi juizio son muy dinas de ser leidas y estimadas, asi por la sentençia como por el estilo.

(Juan de Valdés, Diálogo de la lengua, 1533)

Alabar un poeta a otro es memoria

para que suba a numero de estados.

El don íñigo López tuuo gloria

en sus versos paganos celebrados.

El don Iorge Manrique con victoria

cantó en poco los tiempos olvidados;

en poco que es tan grande, en breue suma,

que no ay tiempo ni oluido que consuma.

(Juan Mal de Lara, Hércules animoso, c. 1549–71)
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Jorge Manrique's 'Coplas por la muerte de su padre'
A History of the Poem and its Reception
, pp. 178 - 182
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2011

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