- Cuba, history, poetry, Poesía cubana
First epic-historic poem written in Cuba in 1608 by Silvestre de Balboa. It tells of the capture of the bishop of Cuba, Fray Juan de las Cabezas Altamirano by a group of French pirates and of his ransom and rescue by a group of men from Bayamo (1602).
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Earnest, classical in form, resolved and plot-driven.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Silvestre de Balboa
- First published
- 1941
- Pages
- 112
- Publisher
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Universal, Cátedra
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- lat, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9788437626697
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