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Updated: May 19, 2025
Lord Holland, the best informed and most elegant of our writers on the subject of the Spanish theatre, declared that he had been induced to learn that language by what Hayley had written concerning the poet Ercilla.
Some notion of the tremendous vigour with which these wars of the south were waged may be gathered from "La Araucana," the magnificent epic written by Ercilla, the Spanish poet, who composed his verses hot from the fight, his arms still weary from wielding the sword. One of the first of the notable Spanish victims in the course of these wars was Valdivia himself.
This he did, sailing from Cadiz on the 9th or 10th of May to Ercilla on the Morocco coast, where he anchored on the 13th. But the Moors had all departed and the siege was over; so Columbus, having sent Bartholomew and some of his officers ashore on a civil visit, which was duly returned, set out the same day on his last voyage.
"And what pretty names, brother; there's my own, for example, Jasper; then there's Ambrose and Sylvester; then there's Culvato, which signifies Claude; then there's Piramus that's a nice name, brother." "Then there's your wife's name, Pakomovna; then there's Ursula and Morella." "Then, brother, there's Ercilla." "Ercilla! the name of the great poet of Spain, how wonderful; then Leviathan."
There is but one long poem of this class which obtained much regard when it appeared, and which has been remembered ever since, the "Araucana." News having arrived that the Araucans, a tribe of Indians in Chili, had revolted against the Spanish authority, Ercilla joined the adventurous expedition that was sent out to subdue them.
In this poem the descriptive powers of Ercilla are remarkable, and his characters, especially those of the American chiefs, are drawn with force and distinctness.
The whole poem is pervaded by that deep sense of loyalty, always a chief ingredient in Spanish honor and heroism, and which, in Ercilla, seems never to have been chilled by the ingratitude of the master to whom he devoted his life, and to whose glory he consecrated this poem.
Pedro de Zieza. Alvar Nunnez Cabeza de Vaca. Bernal Diaz del Castillo. The Bishop of Chiapa, Las Casas. The Dean Cervantes. Francisco de Xeres. Gonzalo Ximenes de Quesada. Garibay. Pedro Pizarro. The relations of Cortes. Nunno de Guzman. Diego Fernandez de Palentia. Augustino de Zarate. The Pontifical History. Don Alonzo de Ercilla. Geronimo Benzon. Theodore de Brye. Jusepe de Acosta.
"Very good," said the barber; "and here come three together, the 'Araucana' of Don Alonso de Ercilla, the 'Austriada' of Juan Rufo, Justice of Cordova, and the 'Montserrate' of Christobal de Virues, the Valencian poet."
The remoteness and, one might say, the romantic possibilities of the places into which Camoens and Tasso were led by their themes, enable imagination to deal pretty freely with history. But in a little more than ten years after Camoens glorified Portugal in an historical epic, Don Alonso de Ercilla tried to do the same for Spain.
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