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The metaphor "hand of the breeze" is not common in Spanish literature, although it was used by Federico García Lorca in his work Poemas sueltos of 1921. Writers like Juan Valera and Arabists like Pascual de Gayangos and Juan Vernet, when translating this metaphor, avoided mentioning "hand" and opted instead for other terms, such as "breath of the breeze", "breeze of the breeze" or simply "morning breeze", further confirming that this is a strange metaphor in the Spanish language. However, in 1859 the Arabist Lafuente Alcántara rendered the metaphor "hand of the breeze" literally into Spanish when translating a poem by the Andalusí Ibn Zamrak (14th century) that is inscribed on the walls of the Alhambra of Granada. Other Arabists, such as Simonet, Dozy and Dernburg, also translated the metaphor this way. This article is based on the hypothesis that Garcia Lorca, due to his great interest in the palatine city of the Alhambra, knew of this typically Andalusí metaphor and incorporated it into his poetic production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The vainglory subject plays an important role in the Arabic poetry. There are poems which talk about discussions among flowers, how they are proud or each one is better than the other. These poems had been translated in the nineteenth century or sorne time before to Latin, Spanish, English and French. In the Spanish poetry, sorne poems of Duque de Rivas, Carbonero y Sol and Zorrilla look like the Arabic poems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this second paper of the series named "The Arabic poetry and the Arab poets of the XIX century", I review the direct and indirect contacts that the romantics Duque de Rivas, Estébanez Calderón, Bécquer, Carbonero y Sol, y Juan Valera had with the Arabic poetry; also mentioning other authors who belong to this literary movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is a generalized idea among the Spanish literature historians who say that the influence of the east on the Spanish romanticism has arrived through the Europe literature. This article try to show that this influence has also arrived through the Arabic sources translated to Europeans languages. We have chosen the famous Spanish poet José Zorrilla as an example. This poet wanted to study Arabic, he wrote is some of his works Arabic letters. It seems that he read al-Maqqarī, One thousand and one nights, and some orientalists works about Arabic literature. He even was a friend of Spanish orientalists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]