Looking for poems....

[John F. Schwaller]

At 09:06 AM 8/28/00 -0700, you wrote:
>>From: "John F. Schwaller" <schwallr at selway.umt.edu>
>A translation into
>>English which
>>has caused much controversy is John Bierhorst's _Cantares Mexicanos_ which
>>also contains some poems attributed to Nezahualcoyotl.
>
>Controversy? Interesting. This is unknown to me. Can you eleborate?



Bierhorst holds that the poems in the Cantares Mexicanos were part of a
Nahua "Ghost Dance" ritual destined to revivify the essence of fallen
warriors in a crypto-rebellion against the Spanish.  No other scholar who
has studied the song cycle has been able to discover such a theme.



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