Golden Age Spanish Sonnets

Introduction:

This is an ongoing project. Its primary purpose is to provide good verse translations of Golden Age Spanish sonnets to English-speaking readers. I hope that it may also serve to provide an online forum for the discussion of these works as well as a resource for anyone interested in delving further into the material.

What's here:

At this point I have 110 sonnets with translations posted. I have also included some links to other web sites. These always need to be updated, so please let me know if there's something I've missed.

NEW! Commentary materials for most of the sixteenth-century sonnets have now been posted. Links to these are found on the text pages, just below the text of each sonnet, and require that a flash reader be installed on your computer. Rather than a full-blown article on each sonnet, commentaries relate to the analytical process, with notes regarding premises, structure, language, and the confluence of these elements. I would appreciate knowing your reaction to this format. I have begun to work on commentary for seventeenth-century poets, but now have limited time to work on them. With luck they'll be done by the end of 2006.

Bibliographies for each poet are now available. Again, let me know of any materials I may have missed.

A general index of mythological links, as well as links to specific mythological allusions in the sonnets, has also been posted. If you know of any additional useful links, please let me know.


What's not here... yet:
The materials listed below will be added as time permits.
  1. a thematic index
  2. an index of historical references
  3. links between poems
  4. links to mythological and historical resources from the poem pages
  5. commentary and additional notes on the poems and translations for the seventeenth-century
  6. perhaps a general introduction to Golden Age Spanish poetry


And finally, an invitation:

Visitors to this site are invited to submit their own translations and/or commentary. Text files may be sent as e-mail messages or as attachments.

I would also appreciate receiving links to any relevant poetry sites so I can include them on the links page.



E-mail submissions, questions, comments and suggestions to:

Alix Ingber
Professor of Spanish
Sweet Briar College
ingber@sbc.edu


Spanish at Sweet Briar

This page was last updated on April 7, 2006.