Stitched paper wrappers
1905 · Santiago
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth; Vicuña, Carlos Morla, trans
Santiago, 1905. Second edition. Stitched paper wrappers. A very good unopened (uncut) copy.. 146 pp. 12mo. The best known of the numerous Spanish translations of Longfellow's classic, first published by Vicuña in 1871 with the help of Rafael Pombo. Vicuña saw the poem as an allegory of the history of the hemisphere and in many ways his translation transcends its English language version. and was called by a reviewer "the highest point reached in the literature of the U.S.... the first American work which describes the grand, surpassing aspects of Nature on this new continent... (see Kirsten Silva Gruesz: Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing, pp. 94-100). (Inventory #: 39620)