Robert Southey's Roderick the Last of the Goths (1814): structure, analysis and translation
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Oct 1, 2014
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Spanish history, Poetic narration, Translation of poetry.
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This paper analyses the most relevant work written by the English poet Robert Southey: Roderick the Last of the Goths. With this poem, written in 25 cantos, the author gained a reputation with his contemporary critics that raised him over Milton’s Paradise Lost. After presenting a brief introduction to Don Rodrigo’s figure, that inspired Southey, and also to that of this minor Lake poet and his forays into Spanish history, the present study provides an analysis of the poem and the translation of Canto II, “Roderick in Solitude”, composed of 246 lines in free verse. The translation in alexandrines will allow us to maintain the same elegance and atmosphere of the original poem.
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MARTÍNEZ OJEDA, B., & RUIZ ARMILLAS, J. R. (2014). Robert Southey’s Roderick the Last of the Goths (1814): structure, analysis and translation. Hikma, 13, 21–45. https://doi.org/10.21071/hikma.v13i.5225
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