Nature of the Glosa

Autor del texto editado: Hallam, Henry
Título de la obra: Introduction to the Literature of Europe, in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth centuries, vol. 1
Autor de la obra: Hallam, Henry
Edición: London: John Murray, 1837
Paginación: pp. 165-166.

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Nature of the Glosa

An analogy between poetry and music, extending beyond the mere laws of sound, has been ingeniously remarked by Bouterwek in a very favourite species of Spanish composition, the glosa. In this a few lines, commonly well-known and simple, were glossed, or paraphrased, with as much variety and originality as the poet's ingenuity could give, in a succession of stanzas, so that the leading sentiment should be preserved in each, as the subject of an air runs through its variations. It was often contrived that the chief words of the glossed lines should recur separately during each stanza. The two arts being incapable of a perfect analogy, this must be taken as a general one; for it was necessary that each stanza should be conducted so as to terminate in the lines, or a portion of them, which form the subject of the gloss. Of these artificial, though doubtless, at the time, very pleasing compositions, there is nothing, as far as I know, to be found beyond the Peninsula; though, in a general sense, it may be said, that all lyric poetry, where in a burthen or repetition of leading verses recurs, must originally be founded on the same principle, less artfully and musically developed. The burthen of a song can only be an impertinence if its sentiment does not pervade the whole.

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