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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2024

By
José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra ,
Anna M. Nogar  and
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
Edited by
José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra ,
Anna M. Nogar  and
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra
Affiliation:
University of Houston
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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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A History of Mexican Poetry , pp. 1 - 15
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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