{"product_id":"stanzas-on-the-death-of-jorge-manrique-9781848617728","title":"Stanzas on the Death of His Father: Coplas a la muerte de su padre","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCoplas por la muerte de su padre \u003c\/em\u003eby Jorge Manrique (c.1440-79) is one of the most celebrated poems in the Spanish language. Written shortly before the poet's death, it is a dignified elegy that speaks not just of a personal loss, that of the poet's father Rodrigo Manrique (d.1476), but of the evanescence of all things \u003cem\u003esub specie aeternitatis\u003c\/em\u003e. Its popularity is aided by memorable lines, not least the two opening metaphors: man's life is a river meandering unto the sea of death (st. 3), and this world is the road to the next, the lasting dwelling place (st. 5). The poem replicates these reflections in its wending form. Its forty stanzas each comprise four tercets; each tercet is made up of two longer octosyllabic verses combined with one four-syllable half line known as \u003cem\u003epie quebrado\u003c\/em\u003e. These regular broken lines, like beats of a heart, invest the poem with a resonant quality befitting the injunction at the opening of the poem to awaken one's slumbering soul to the passage of time: 'Recuerde el alma dormida, avive el seso e despierte' (st. 1).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jorge Manrique\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1848617720\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781848617728\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Shearsman Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/11\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.24d","brand":"Jorge Manrique","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43984406741247,"sku":"9781848617728","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5507f8aa-c8ad-4e2c-870c-8563cad97565.jpg?v=1683272131","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stanzas-on-the-death-of-jorge-manrique-9781848617728","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}