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LUIS DE LEÓN'S QUE DESCANSADA VIDA AND THE FIRST CARMEN OF TIBULLUS

1970; Liverpool University Press; Volume: 47; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/1475382702000347019

1469-3550

Edward Sarmiento,

Spanish Literature and Culture Studies

The late Adolphe Coster, in his article ‘Dos palabras más sobre las poesías de Fr. Luis de León’, in the first volume of the 1925 Homenaje a Menéndez Pidal (Hernando, Madrid, 287–97), noted at line 65 of Qué descansada vida (cuando el Cierzo y el Ábrego porfían) two lines (49–50) from the first carmen of Tibullus. I should like in this paper to suggest that there are several more reminiscences from this poem of Tibullus in León's famous ode. Coster himself and W. J. Entwistle had each made a passing but unspecific allusion to Tibullus in connexion with Qué descansada vida in earlier articles but I think no other scholar has done so before or since.