Catalonia's towering Romantic poet and rebel priest, Jacint Verdaguer (1845-1902), delves deep into the Catalan imaginary in his foundational long poem Mount Canigó (1886), recounting the historical and legendary mix, bothtragic and triumphant, of the medieval origins of modern Catalonia. Catalonia's towering Romantic poet and rebel priest, Jacint Verdaguer (1845-1902), delves deep into the Catalan imaginary in his foundational long poem Mount Canigó (1886), recounting the historical and legendary mix, both tragicand triumphant, of the medieval origins of modern Catalonia. The collision between duty and love is mirrored by the symbolic conflict between, on the one hand, a powerful folk mythology rooted in the natural geography and, on theother, the widely institutionalized universalism of Christianity concomitant to the reconquest of the Iberian peninsula. Rich in lyrical and thematic correspondence with long poems ranging from La chanson de Roland, Ariosto's Orlando Furioso and Spenser's Faerie Queene to Milton's Paradise Lost, Longfellow's Evangeline and Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Verdaguer's masterful verse rivals all the legendary magic andwonder of the mountains themselves. Jacint Verdaguer is regarded as one of the greatest poets of Catalan literature. Ronald Puppo is the translator of Selected Poems of Jacint Verdaguer: A Bilingual Edition. Mount Canigó: A Tale of Catalonia is published in association with Editorial Barcino. Winner of the 2016 "Serra d'Or" Critics Award for Research in Catalan Studies

Canigo es un poema epic de 1886 escrit per Jacint Verdaguer que constitueix un dels poemes clau de la Renaixenca catalana. Aquest poema, que es un llibre, conte una descripcio geografica dels Pirineus catalans que es desenvolupa a traves de la figura mitica del Comte Tallaferro, un valent i ferotge lluitador contra els sarrains. El mite esta basat en el personatge historic Bernat Tallaferro. Aquesta historia, en la que apareixen tambe elements mitologics, esta situada al segle XI de l'edat mitjana, a l'epoca que els catalans patien invasions musulmanes."