Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Works of Garcilasso De La Vega: Surnamed the Prince of Castilian Poets, Translated Into English Verse; With a Critical and Historical Essay on Spanish Poetry, and a Life of the Author
Till within the last few years but little attention appears to have been paid in England to Castilian verse. Our earliest poets of eminence, Chaucer and Lord Surrey, struck at once into the rich field of Italian song, and by their imitations of Petrarch and Boccaccio; most probably set the fashion to their successors, of the exclusive study which they gave to the same models, to the neglect 'of the cotempo'rary writers of other nations, to those at least of Spain. Nor is this partiality to the one and neglect of the other to be at all.
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