New Mexico Quarterly Volume 17 | Issue 4 Article 1 1947 Full Issue University of New Mexico Press Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmq Recommended Citation University of New Mexico Press. "Full Issue." New Mexico Quarterly 17, 4 (1947). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmq/vol17/iss4/ 1 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the University of New Mexico Press at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in New Mexico Quarterly by an authorized editor of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. '~~"',:L :'~~~:~':;~~~~;~1';[~;:~~~~tt;~~~~'~~~.L·~~J:}';~.·il~ .. __ "'i : Full Issue ',..,~, . "C}i!~},~~~y~£:~~~~~.~i ~ " .'" 0 ,". ,~; '.', , ..... •• .';" " .'t ::/~\f~:;):;r:~--',{,~~-_,< ~e'~~;;;i1tE,~':·"' Book Reviews •• • 'Book Usts • • • Other feat.. .:-::~;;r-:~;_,;::..~~!<.;;~ .,~:":,,-;,i.._,; , -" . .) , ~ -', ,', . -."' '::i·~. 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Julia Keleher · 533 Published by UNM Digital Repository, 1947 3 New Mexico Quarterly, Vol. 17 [1947], Iss. 4, Art. 1 CONTRIB UTORS JOAQUIN ORTEGA, professor of Spanish, J;>irector of the School of Inter-American Affairs, and general editor of the Inter~Americana series at the University of New Mexico, has taught Spanish literature for the last thirty-one years..He was assigned the leading article in this issue to commemorate the fourth centenary of the birth of Cervantes. CHARLES I. GLlCKSBERG, assistant professor of English at Brooklyn College, New York, is author of Walt Whitman and the Civil War and of numerous literary and scientific articles pub­ lished in magazines and anthologies both in America and abroad. Another essay by HANS Orro STORM appeared in the Autumn, 1947. issue of this magazine. VIRGINIA SoRENSEN, of Denver, Colorado, is author of a second novel, The Neighbors, published this year by Reynal Be Hitchcock; in 1946 she held a Guggenheim fellowship for work in Mexico. GUSTAV DAVIDSON, poet, critic, and playwright, is director of The Fine Editions Press and publisher of the Poetry Chapbook. WINGATE FROSCHER, now living in Brooklyn, New York, was born in Puerto Rico and lived there for many years; he has recently completed a novel dealing with native plantation life. The sketch by IRMA WASSALL is her first prose contribution to these pages, although her poetry has been published here. ANN STANFORD, of Los Angeles, author of In Narrow Bound, is now gathering material for a second book of verse. JESSAMYN WEST, whose book The Friendly Persuasion was published last year, is widely known (or her short stories, many of which have 'appeared In this magazine. JOHN NERBER is author of The S1lectre Image, an important first col­ lection published last year. PABLO NERUDA, famous Sobth American poet, has been liberally represented in such volumes as Three Spanish American Poets and the Anthology of Latin American Poetry; a complete volume of his work was published recently. RACHEL LoUGH­ RIDGE, of Mount Pleasant, Michigan, has appeared here before with translations of both poetry and prose. The remaining poets are all new to these pages. JAMES R. CALDWELL, who teaches English at the University of California in Berkeley, is author of Keats' Fancy and other scholarly works; his poems printed here are from Pringle and Other Poems to be pUblished soon by Alan Swallow. KENNETH REXROTH, who contributes a poem of his own as well as a translation of a poem 'by the early 19th-century Italian poet Leopardi, is author of The Phoenix and the Tortoise and of other books of poems. MORRIS EDWARD OPLER, author of many books and articles about the Indians of the Southwest, is a member of the department of anthropology at Harvard University. J. ERIc S. THOMPSON is with the Division of Historical Research of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. J. FRANK DOBIE, recently retired as professor of English at the University of Texas, is author of A Texan in England and of many books of history and folklore of the Southwest. JOSEPH J. FIREBAUGH is a member of the department of humanities at the University of Florida. MARGARET PAGE HOOD, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, is a free lance writer specializing in New Mexico folklore. INA SIZER CASSIDY, of Santa Fe, an authority on New Mexican folkways, is active in the New Mexico Folklore Society and a frequent contributor to folklore journals. MABEL MAJOR is a member of the department of English at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas. DOROTHY BEALS teaches English at the University of California in Los Angeles. EDWARD N. SAVETH, who lives in New York City, is an American historian specializing in the problems of minority groups. CHARLES E. PAYNE, a professor in the Division of Social Studies at Grinnell C...allege. Grinnell, Iowa, is the biographer of J. B. Grinnell and author of'many articles on state, national, and international affairs. HENRY HAYDEN, a graduate of the Pacific School of Religion, Berke­ ley, California, is now Minister to Students at the University of New Mexico. IRVING BRODKIN, of Brooklyn, New York, free lances in the field of public relations. FRANCES MORGENROTH, also a free lance writer, lives in Boulder,- Colorado. Other reviewers are members of the faculty of the University of New Mexico: THELMA CAMPBELl:, the depart­ ment of modern languages, and W. P. ALBRECHT and KATHERINE SIMONS, both members of the English department. LYLE SAUNDERS is assistant professor of sociology and research associate of the School of Inter-American Affairs, and JUUA KELEHER, author of the regular feature, "Los Pai­ 83oos," is assistant professor of English, both of the University of New Mexico. https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmq/vol17/iss4/1 4 : Full Issue .~ RErrHIN KiNG. CERVANTES Joaquin Ortega OUR HUNDRED YEARS AGO this fall the greatest literary genius that I the Hispanic world has produced was born in Alcala de Henares, Fa city set in the heart of Castile and mad~ ~famous during the early Spanish renaissance by that super-Spaniard, Cardinal Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros, austere Franciscan friar, soldier, statesman, scholar, who founded and endowed the University and the College of San Ildefonso, and brought there eminent scholars from uall comers of the earth to edit the monumental Polyglot Bible) first undertaking of its nature ever attempted. Alcala de Henares, impregnated with cosmopolitan airs, was a fitting birthplace for Cervantes, man of the world. In these tumultuous days Cervantes calls for pointed commentary. His field, like that of Plato, Dante, Shakespeare,, or Goethe, is so rich that a single aspect of his work is more than sufficient to plunge the mind into' true research, which is,. after all, no~ arriving at ,any con­ clusions, but chasing ideas until they escape from the orbit of dur power. I have chosen to outline, for no more is possible in the space at my disposal, some of the contributions of Cervantes to the western world. Don Quijote de La Mancha) the story df the knight who to right wrongs sallies forth over the roads of the world armed only with es­ sences of honesty and ideals, and of the simple squire who carries his saddlebags loaded with tangible substances, is the greatest fiction ever written of man in his universal aspects. Don Quijote represents the synthesis of medieval religious tradi­ tion struggling for survival iIi an era of rationalism. Don Quijote is not yet ·dead, because men everywhere are still struggling to !econcile religion with reason. But if Don Quijote were only th~ embodiment of medieval religious idealism, his imPOriance would be less. Ther~ are many characters in medieval literature, in the Arthurian and Car­ olingian cycles, in hagiography, that typify· ·this side of man.; Don Quijote is also a synthesis of renaissance idealism, of the aspii'ations Published by UNM Digital Repository, 1947 5 New Mexico Quarterly, Vol. 17 [1947], Iss. 4, Art. 1 NEW MEXICO QUARTER'LY REVIEW of men who had discovered the beauties of the external world and the power of their minds applied to it. In his dual mentality and his dual spirit, he is the s~preme symbol of the battle between the residue of the man of the Middle Ages and the new man of the Renaissance.