Note 314 — III The Sixteenth Century [1502-80]

p. 287: ... so ganz persönlichem Stil, dass sie mit keinem anderen Dichter vor oder nach ihnen, wohl aber untereinander zu verwechseln wären; and p. 292: Bernardim Ribeiro writes ganz im Stile des Falcão. Cf. F. Bouterwek, History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature, Eng. tr. 1823, ii. 39: ‘A long eclogue by this writer, which forms an appendix to the works of Ribeyro, so completely partakes of the character of the poems which it accompanies that were it not for the separate title it might be mistaken for the production of Ribeyro himself. It therefore proves that Ribeyro’s poetic fancies, his romantic mysticism not excepted, were by no means individual.’