Author: Perez Bonalde, Juan Antonio [1846-1892]
Title: Ritmos
Description: New York, n.p. 1880. orig.cloth. 15x11cm, xxvi,320 pp, LACKING tissueguard. LACKING front free flyleaf. Several pages smudged. Some binding stains.. Frontispiece, 1 plate. Upper front cover corner heavily gnawed. Poor condition. ¶ Original decorated cloth. Binding rubbed. Some pencilled marks to the engraved plate and to several pages. Name on front endpaper. Poetry. Text entirely in Spanish. Author's second book? Not listed in Library of Congress online catalogue. Perez Bonalde, a leading Venezuelan romantic poet [& translator of Heine & Edgar Allen Poe] was a political opponent of General Guzmán Blanco who was forced to flee Venezuela and live in exile in New York from 1870-1890. His long 'Poema del Niágara' [contained in this volume 'Ritmos'] was considered by Jose Marti to be his masterwork. ["..El poema obedece al sentimiento del romántico por la Naturaleza y a su identificación con algunos espectáculos naturales de gran belleza. Pérez Bonalde va más allá. El torrente y su catarata le hacen imaginar que en ellos está oculto un Genio a quien el poeta puede interrogar acerca los misterios de la vida y de la muerte.." - efemeridesvenezolanas website]

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