Cantares gallegos by Rosalía de Castro
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"Cantares gallegos" by Rosalía de Castro is a poetry collection published in 1863. Written in Galician, this groundbreaking work marks the rebirth of Galician literature and dignifies a language often overlooked. Through poems influenced by popular Galician songs, Castro captures rural society with costumbrist descriptions, love poems, and social commentary. She becomes the lyric voice of her abandoned homeland, celebrating its landscapes—mountains, fields, and sea—while addressing emigration and injustice. The collection defends
Galician identity and creates lasting testimony for its people, particularly campesinos and fishermen. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Castro, Rosalía de, 1837-1885 |
|---|---|
| Title | Cantares gallegos |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantares_gallegos |
| Credits |
Produced by Ramon Pajares Box and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 70.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | Galician |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Galician poetry |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 59037 |
| Release Date | Mar 8, 2019 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 653 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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