SOURCE: Rodrigues, Louis J. “Rosalía de Castro's Galician Poems: ‘Nasín Cand'’ … and ‘Negra Sombra’.” In NoSpine.com: Independent Authors from Around the World. (22 March 2001): .

In the following essay, Rodrigues discusses two of Castro's Galician poems, examining texts translated from Galician to English, Spanish, and Catalan.

Rosalía de Castro (1837-85) was born at Santiago de Compostela, the daughter of María Teresa de Cruz de Castro e Abadía, a descendant of an old and noble Galician family; her father was unknown but is believed to have been a seminarian, José Martínez Viojo. Rosalía was brought up by her godmother, María Francisca Martínez, a relative of her presumed father, but later rejoined her mother in Santiago. She probably learned the songs and acquired her love of the Galician people from her childhood nurse, a peasant girl called ‘La Choina’. She attended school...