The Forest (f)or the Trees, or Silvas in Selvas: Arborial Imagery in Hispanic Literature Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Abstract This essay expands upon a definition of the silva which is at once broader and more specific than the traditional sense in which it is normally understood: broader in the sense of not being limited to the silva mtrica, and more specific because limited to poems (and stories) about trees. Beginning with Publius Papinius Statius and Francisco de Quevedo, then progressing through Antonio Machado and Vicente Aleixandre, and finally arriving at Mara Luisa Bombal and Claribel Alegra, this project traces a genealogy for tree poems in Hispanic literature.

published proceedings

  • CALIOPE-JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE HISPANIC POETRY

author list (cited authors)

  • Kallendorf, H.

citation count

  • 0

complete list of authors

  • Kallendorf, Hilaire

publication date

  • November 2021