Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these poets in the order they were born.
- Jorge Manrique
- Luís de Camões
- Ausiàs March
Hints
- One of the three belongs to the first half of the fifteenth century.
- March precedes Manrique, and Camões is a century later than either.
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- Ausiàs March
- Jorge Manrique
- Luís de Camões
Why
March was born around 1400, Manrique around 1440 and Camões around 1524. The order matters for what each was working against: March broke with Provençal when it was still the expected language of serious lyric, Manrique wrote inside an established Castilian tradition, and Camões was writing an epic for a country whose empire was already in question.
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