Note 921 — Chapter XXX
Reading edition
The life of Borja is in Baena, Tom. II. p. 175; and his opinions on poetry, defending the older and simpler school, are set forth in some décimas prefixed to his “Obras en Verso,” of which there are editions of 1639, 1654, and 1663. Of his lyrical ballads, I would notice particularly, in the edition of Amberes, 1663, 4to, Nos. 40, 66, and 129. The trifle translated in the text is No. 20 among the poems which he calls Bueltas, a sort of refrain, with a gloss, where much poetical ingenuity is shown, in the turn both of the thought and of the phraseology.