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REVIEWS DURAN, MANUEL & ROBERTO GONZALEZ ECHEVARRÍA, eds. Calderón y la crítica: Historia y antología, 2 vols. Madrid: Gredos, 1976. 786pp. 800 pesetas. At Cadiz in 1816 a German, the Schlegelian J.N. Bohl von Faber, first upheld the 'Romantic' merits of Calderón and promptly embroiled himself in a long, bitter polemic with the anti-Calderonian neo-Classicists Joaquin de Mora and Alcalá Galiano. This perplexing confrontation-between enthusiastic foreigners outside Spain who extol Calderón and articulate critis inside Spain who treat their poet with hostility and malign indifference-is an historical paradox which, after more than two centuries, remains with us. The recent two-volume, Spanish-language anthology of essays on Calderón de la Barca assembled by Profs. Duran and González Echevarr ía represents a heroic effort, by garnering riches from abroad and by retrospective reference to the literary history of Europe, to divert the course of Spanish critical history. Because of its ambit
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REVIEWS DURAN, MANUEL & ROBERTO GONZALEZ ECHEVARRÍA, eds. Calderón y la crítica: Historia y antología, 2 vols. Madrid: Gredos, 1976. 786pp. 800 pesetas. At Cadiz in 1816 a German, the Schlegelian J.N. Bohl von Faber, first upheld the 'Romantic' merits of Calderón and promptly embroiled himself in a long, bitter polemic with the anti-Calderonian neo-Classicists Joaquin de Mora and Alcalá Galiano. This perplexing confrontation-between enthusiastic foreigners outside Spain who extol Calderón and articulate critis inside Spain who treat their poet with hostility and malign indifference-is an historical paradox which, after more than two centuries, remains with us. The recent two-volume, Spanish-language anthology of essays on Calderón de la Barca assembled by Profs. Duran and González Echevarr ía represents a heroic effort, by garnering riches from abroad and by retrospective reference to the literary history of Europe, to divert the course of Spanish critical history. Because of its ambit
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