Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each poet to the form or language choice that defines their work here.
- Jorge Manrique
- Ausiàs March
- Luís de Camões
- Dante Alighieri
- Terza rima
- Copla de pie quebrado
- Catalan instead of Provençal
- Ottava rima
Hints
- Three are verse forms and one is a language decision.
- March’s significance is which language he refused as much as which he used.
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- Jorge Manrique → Copla de pie quebrado
- Ausiàs March → Catalan instead of Provençal
- Luís de Camões → Ottava rima
- Dante Alighieri → Terza rima
Why
March’s choice belongs in this list because it is the same kind of decision: writing serious lyric in Catalan when Provençal was expected is a formal commitment, not a convenience, and like Dante’s vernacular, it helped fix a literary language.
Practise Poetic Traditions I: the Medieval and Renaissance Lyric
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