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CHAPTERS ON
SPANISH LITERATURE

CHAPTERS ON
SPANISH LITERATURE

BY

JAMES FITZMAURICE-KELLY

FELLOW OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY
CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE SPANISH ACADEMY
MEDALLIST OF THE HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA, ETC.

LONDON
ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE
AND COMPANY LTD.
1908

TO

MY FELLOW-MEMBERS

OF

THE HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA

THESE LECTURES

ARE CORDIALLY DEDICATED

PREFACE

Last summer the Trustees of the Hispanic Society ofAmerica did me the honour to invite me to give a courseof lectures on Spanish literature in the United States,and almost at the same time an invitation to lectureon the same subject reached me from the Provost ofUniversity College, London. The chapters contained inthe present volume are the result. The lectures on theCid, Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón, and ModernSpanish Novelists were delivered during the autumnand winter of 1907 at the University of Columbia;some of these were repeated at Cornell, Harvard,Johns Hopkins, Pennsylvania, and Yale Universities;some at Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, and Smith’sCollege (Northampton, Massachusetts); and the wholeseries was given this spring at University College,London.

Owing to the limited amount of time available foreach lecture, it became necessary to omit a few paragraphshere and there in delivery. These are nowrestored. With the exception of the chapter on theArchpriest of Hita (part of which has been recast),all the lectures are printed substantially as they werewritten. Occasional references have been added in theform of notes.

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In addresses of this kind some repetition of ‘you’ and‘I’ is almost unavoidable. It has, however, been thoughtbetter to retain the conversational character of thelectures, and it is hoped that the use of the objectionablefirst personal pronoun does not degenerate into abuse.

Lastly, it is a duty and pleasure to thank my friendlyaudiences in America and England for the indulgencewith which they listened to these discourses.

JAMES FITZMAURICE-KELLY.

Kneippbaden: vid Norrköping,
xxxxxxxxxMay 1, 1908.

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