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Título del texto editado:
Poets of his Court
Autor del texto editado:
Hallam, Henry
Título de la obra:
Introduction to the Literature of Europe: In the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,
Vol. 1
Autor de la obra:
Hallam, Henry
Edición:
London:
John Murray,
1837
In the court of John II were found three men, whose names stand high in the early annals of Spanish poetry, —the marquisses of Villena and Santillana, and Juan de Mena. But, except for their zeal in the cause of letters, amidst the dissipations of a court, they have no pretensions to compete with some of the obscure poets to whom we owe the romances of chivalry. A desire, on the contrary, to show needless learning, and to astonish the vulgar by an appearance of profundity, so often the bane of poetry, led them into prosaic and tedious details, and into affected refinements.
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