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Article: La poesia de Joan Maragall.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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La poesia de Joan Maragall. By ARTHUR TERRY. 2nd edn. Barcelona: Quaderns Crema. 1999. 267 pp. 2,500ptas.
On its appearance in 1963, Arthur Terry's study of the poetry of Joan Maragall made its mark in several ways. It was seen as the very first study of its kind in Catalan letters, neither historical nor encyclopaedic but interpretative and gentle, yet displaying the highest possible critical rigour and attention to detail. Furthermore, in the repressive world of Franco's Spain, the Catalans were greatly impressed by Terry's critical method, which used elements both traditional and modern, and regarded his choice of Maragall's poetry and the fact that he wrote his ...