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Electronic Text Center at U.Va.: Spanish Language Resources
Full text of thousands of works in English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Latin, and Asian languages.
Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro [GMU Restricted]
This full text database contains the most important plays of the 16th and 17th century in Spain, either edited by the playwrights themselves or by an editor "endorsed" by the playwright.
Ibero-American Electronic Text Series
The Ibero-American Electronic Text Series include Menéndez Pidal's edition of Elena y María, Cejador y Frauca's editon of El Criticón, Sor Juana's Loa para el auto sacramental de El Divino Narciso, Esteban Echeverrías' El matadero, Ermilo Abreu Gómez's essay Semblanza de Sor Juana, and the Folché-Delbose edition of Vida de Santa María Egipciaqua.
Proyecto Cervantes
Includes The CDL is a digital library of Cervantes's complete works in several versions (princeps, old-spelling, modernized, English) along with the interfaces, hypertext links, and search engines to facilitate their use at multiple levels. Our goal is to develop a collection of texts and editions fully integrated with the other components of the
Antología de poesía española
Contains lots of texts from different periods. The poetry texts are all in Spanish, but the introduction and information on Spanish meter and rhyme (with practice exercises) are available in English.
Poesía en español
This link takes you to the index of a very large collection of poetry, including works by Góngora, Quevedo, Garcilaso, and others. The source of each poem is included. In Spanish.
PhiloBiblon
A bio-bibliographical database of early texts produced in the Iberian Peninsula
Cibertextos
Golden Age poetry and drama
Los Poetas
Spanish and Latin American poetry
Golden Age Spanish Sonnets
This is an ongoing project. Its primary purpose is to provide good verse translations of Golden Age Spanish sonnets to English-speaking readers.
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INDIVIDUAL WORKS
Spain: Medieval
Cantar de Mio Cid
Electronic and interactive edition of Cantar de Mio Cid. Only the text and a concordance are available.
Juan Ruiz's Libro de Buen Amor
Complete text of the Arcipreste's masterpiece, reproducing the edition of Clasicos Castellanos. Introduction and a short bibliography available.
Don Juan Manuel's Conde de Lucanor
The prologue and a few exemplos from the Conde de Lucanor .
Alfonso X´s Cantigas de Santa María
A very complete site. Facsimilies, illuminations, transcriptions and related links, from music samples to translations.
Jorge Manrique´s Coplas por la muerte de su padre
Text of the Coplas , along with Rafael Alberti´s reading and Paco Ibañez´s singing of the poem (a low-quality, 32Kbps MP3, requires Windows Media Player).
Fernando de Rojas´s La Celestina
Electronic and interactive edition of La Celestina elaborated by the renowned Rojas scholar Prof. Garci-Gómez, Duke University. This annotated edition includes, among other features, a search engine, a concordance, explanations of words within its semantic fields, a list and explanation of proverbs and idioms, a bibliography, a collection of essays by Prof. Garci-Gómez, and an electronic forum.
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Spain: Golden Age
Garcilaso de la Vega´s Poetry
The Amigos de Garcilaso de la Vega´s Site. Complete works, biography, bibliography, historical background and forum, etc.
Lazarillo de Tormes
Complete text, along with introductory essays about the picaresca and the pícaro.
Fray Luis de León
Text of all his original poems, as established by Juan Francisco Alcina in his edition for Cátedra. English translations of all the poems. None of his translations of the Song of Songs are available.
San Juan de la Cruz
Text of all his poems, as established by Francisco Yndurain in his edition for Cátedra. English translations of all the poems. None of his commentaries are available, only the second versión of the Cántico espiritual is included.
Miguel de Cervantes´s Complete Works
Site built by the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. It contains links to the Complete Works of Miguel de Cervantes, divided into three categories: Narrative, Drama and Poetry. The texts have no notes, although all preliminary texts are included. Among other features, a search engine to find a particular word, an electronic forum, and a list related links are available.
Cervantes Digital Library
Site built under the direction of Dr. Eduardo Urbina, Texas A&M University . Online searchable, browsable, and browsable graphic editions, along with translations, are available. Rudolph Schevill and Adolfo Bonilla´s (1914-1941), and Florencio Sevilla Arroyo and Antonio Rey Hazas´s (1993-1995) editions of Cervantes´s Complete Works. Facsimilies of the Princeps editions (1605, 1615).
- La Galatea Under the direction of Prof. Miguel Garci-Gómez. Text and concordance available.
- Don Quijote de la Mancha Annotated text as established in the so-called definite edition directed by Francisco Rico for Editorial Crítica. All footnotes and end notes in the paper edition are reproduced here. Unfortunately, it is difficult to identify the primary and secondary works cited in the notes, as no bibliography seems to have been included.
Luis de Góngora at Brown University
Site built by a member of the Hispanic Studies Department at Brown University . Texts, links, search engine available.
- Poetry Texts of all the poems by Luis de Góngora, as established in a number of scholarly editions.
- “Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea” Text as established by Anita Arroyo in her edition of Poesías de Luis de Góngora for Porrúa. No notes, no English translation.
- Soledades Text as established by Anita Arroyo in her edition of Poesías de Luis de Góngora for Porrúa. No notes, no English translation.
- “Fabula de Píramo y Tisbe” Annotated edition, with a very complete series of footnotes that cite a great number of texts of the time. Among others, the commentaries of Pellicer, Salazar Mardones y Jammes are used to explain difficult passages.
Lope de Vega´s Poetry Most of his poems, texts from a number of scholarly editions.
Francisco de Quevedo´s Poetry All his poems, texts from a number of scholarly editions. No notes provided.
- El buscón Edited by Prof. Garci-Gómez. Text and concordance available.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca Site built under the direction of Prof. Evangelina Rodríguez Cuadros, Universidad de Valencia. Among other features, studies, essays, gallery of images, multimedia and a collection of related links are available.
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Spain: 19th-Century
Projecto Mariano José de Larra
Site devoted to Larra´s work. Complete text of more than fifty articles, bibliography, online papers, among other features.
José Zorrilla´s Don Juan Tenorio
Digital edition resulting from the study of a number of previous scholarly editions.
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer´s Rimas and Leyendas
Complete poems and tales of the Sevillian poet.
Rosalia de Castro´s Selected Poems
Selection of Rosalía de Castro´s poems. Includes the original text in Galego and a Spanish translation of the poems from Cantares gallegos and Follas novas.
Benito Pérez Galdós´s Work
Complete texts of all his Episodios nacionales , novels and plays. It also includes a biography, online articles, audio files, a gallery of images, and a concordance.
Emilia Pardo Bazan´s Works
Complete texts of Los pazos de Ulloa and La madre naturaleza , along with some other fiction and a few critical essays. Electronic forum available.
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Spain: 20th Century
Miguel de Unamuno
Site devoted to Miguel de Unamuno. Poems, images and essays, including “Del sentimiento trágico de la vida”, along with a biography and articles about his work.
Antonio Machado: A Basic Anthology
Fundación Juan Ramón Jiménez
Site devoted to the Andalusian poet. Biography, bibliography, related links, selected poems.
Ramón Gómez de la Serna
More than fifty poems available.
Fundación Jorge Guillén
Site devoted to Jorge Guillén and his work.
Jorge Guillén´s Selected Poems
More than forty poems available.
Vicente Aleixandre´s Selected Poems
More than forty poems by the Andalusian 1977 Nobel Prize winner.
Federico García Lorca
Site devoted to the Andalusian poet. Biography, selected poems, related links.
Luis Cernuda´s Selected Poems
More than forty poems by the Sevillian poet.
Rafael Alberti´s Selected Poems
More than sixty poems by the Andalusian poet.
José Angel Valente
Text of more than twenty of Valente's best poems.
Album Pere Gimferrer
Site built under the direction of Dr. Enric Bou, Brown University. It explores the many faces of Gimferrer's rich work, from his early poetry in Spanish to his production in Catalan.
Ana Rossetti
Texts and audio files of Rossetti's readings of a dozen of poems.
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Latin American: Colonial
Christopher Columbus's Diary
Extracts from Colón's first voyage. In English.
Hernán Cortés's "Segunda Carta de Relación"
Long extracts from Cortés's second report to Charles V. In English.
Visión de los vencidos
Complete text of Miguel León Portilla's annotated collection of indigenous chronicles of the Spanish conquest of México.
Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios
Complete text of Cabeza de Vaca's account of his expedition and wanderings. PDF.
Guamán Poma de Ayala's El primer Nueva corónica y buen gobierno
Digital reproduction of the complete manuscript of Guamán Poma's Work. Under the direction of Prof. Rolena Adorno, Yale University.
The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Project Site built by the Dartmouth College Spanish Department. Text of Sor Juana's Complete Works, search engine, biography, bibliography (unfortunately, only up to 1998), etc.
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Latin American: 19th-Century
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento's Vida de Juan Facundo Quiroga Complete text of Sarmiento's work about American "civilización y barbarie."
Alberto Blest Gana's Martín Rivas Complete text of Blest Gana's novel.
José Hernández's Martín Fierro Complete texts of Martín Fierro and La vuelta de Martín Fierro.
José Asunción Silva More than forty poems by the Colombian poet.
José Martí Complete poems by Martí, and a selection of his prose.
Dariana Site devoted to Rubén Dario. Selected poems, biography, bibliography, etc.
José Rodó Links to the complete text of Ariel and other works, online articles and sites devoted to Rodó.
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Latin American: 20th Century (check out Poetas.com for individual poets from Latin America)
Horacio Quiroga Includes a few short stories and his "Decálogo del perfecto cuentista."
Alcides Arguedas's Raza de bronce Selections from the Chilean novel. Complete version in a PDF available.
José Vasconcelos's "La raza cósmica" Complete text of Vasconcelos's essay.
César Vallejo Biography, historical background and the text of a dozen of poems
Vicente Huidobro Complete poems, manuscripts, biography, bibliography, essays about Huidobro's work and time,, etc.
Pablo Neruda Biography, selected poems, audio files of Neruda's readings, interview, studies, and more.
Alejo Carpentier Biography and texts of "El camino a Santiago", "Viaje a la semilla" and "Semejante a la noche."
Juan Rulfo Biography and complete texts of Rulfo´s novel and five short-stories: "Nos han dado la tierra", "Es que somos muy pobres", "Macario", "¡Diles que no me maten!" and "El llano en llamas."
Mario Vargas Llosa Biography, bibliography, related links and text of his short-story "Los jefes."
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