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    Quisqueya : a panoramic anthology of dominican verse
    (Editora Del Caribe, 1954) Townsend, Francis E.
    For the most part the selections in this anthology were made by Don Armando Oscar Pacheco. Personalities, as such, mattered little. Merit, and the ultímate aim of the work, have been joremost in the compilers J minds. Preface, introduction, arrangements, and chronological order, perhaps detrimentally so, were done by the artificer of the Anglicizations. In a volume of this nature it is impossible not to slight someone either by omission or inclusión. Not every poet could be given a place. That would hardly be advisable. Those included will not be altogether satisfied with the specimens of their productions taken. The dilemma is unavoidable.
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    Quisqueya = an english-spanish version of the poetry of Santo Domingo
    (Editor no identificado, 1964) Townsend, Francis E.
    Before the Spanish advent Quisqueya was a tropical paradise of SAMBAS and AREITOS. Poetizers vied for approving nods a t the thrones of plumed chteftans. Epics w ere sung in court and, during the Conquest, Anacaona was forging sonorous stan zas which surprized the European discoverers. Christopher Columbus latinized this Caribbean isle. He changed its ñame. But Quisqueya, beloved of the poets, never lost her identity. Babeque fell into oblivion. Bohío became synonym ous with the thatch huts which bespeckle the verdant countryside. A itievolved into St. Domingue (1697), and lastly Haití (1804) — “them ountainous land". Austere Hispaniola (1942) surrendered to the m elifluous E spañola of the Castilian knights. Santo Domingo seduced the cartographer, tem porarily, until geographers reasserted the oíd Spanish form. Hardly had this taken root when the ñame Dominican Republic (1844) relegated that of Santo Domingo to the mapm akers’ limbo. N evertheless, in the breast cf the lyricist Quisqueya Uves and breathes as she did in the heart of the Golden Flower, and her ingenuous, hospitable copper-huedancestors.