Fifteen Poets of the Aztec World

Fifteen Poets of the Aztec World
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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 0806132914
ISBN-13 : 9780806132914
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Download or read book Fifteen Poets of the Aztec World written by Miguel Leon-Portilla and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first English-language translation of a significant corpus of Nahuatl poetry into English, Miguel León-Portilla was assisted in his rethinking, augmenting, and rewriting in English by Grace Lobanov. Biographies of fifteen composers of Nahuatl verse and analyses of their work are followed by their extant poems in Nahuatl and in English.


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