Fifteen Poets of the Aztec World

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Fifteen Poets of the Aztec World

Author	: Miguel Leon-Portilla
File Size	: 41,6 Mb
Publisher	: University of Oklahoma Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 01 May 1992
ISBN	: 0806132914
Pages	: 322 pages

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Fifteen Poets of the Aztec World by Miguel Leon-Portilla Book PDF Summary

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.

Fifteen Poets of the Aztec World by Miguel Leon-Portilla

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