Fifteen poets of the Aztec world /

Fifteen poets of the Aztec world /

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Uniform title:	Quince poetas del mundo azteca. English.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [1992] ©1992
Description:	xvi, 307 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Aztecs -- Poets. Nahuatl poetry. Nahuatl poetry -- Translations into English. Nahuatl poetry. Translations.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13385891

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Varying Form of Title:	15 poets of the Aztec world
Other authors / contributors:	León Portilla, Miguel, editor.
ISBN:	0806124415 9780806124414 9780806132914 0806132914
Notes:	Revised and enlarged translation of: Trece poetas del mundo azteca. 1967. Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-301) and index. In English with poems in Nahuatl and English.
Summary:	Who were the poets of Mexico in the days of Aztec splendor? What were the poems of a culture so different from our own? In this first English-language translation of a significant corpus of Nahuatl poetry into English, an expansion of his classic Trece poetas del mundo azteca, Miguel Leon-Portilla was assisted in his rethinking, augmenting, and rewriting in English by Grace Lobanov. Biographies of fifteen composers of Nahuatl verse and analyses of their work are followed. By their extant poems in Nahuatl and in English. The poets - fourteen men and one woman - lived in the central highlands of Mexico and spoke Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, Tezcocans, Tlaxcalans, and several other chiefdoms. These authors of "flower and song" (a Nahuatl metaphor for poetry, art, and symbolism) lived during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries. Sources for the poems included indigenous "codices," "books of songs" now unfortunately lost. And renditions of them preserved by the Nahuatl oral tradition, which survived the Spanish Conquest and were recorded by several young natives in two manuscripts.

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Call Number:	PM4068.5.T7413 1992
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