Libros antiguos de poesía española en la primera biblioteca de José Fernando Ramírez

Abstract

In 1851, José Fernando Ramírez left his natal Durango for Mexico City; before doing so, he sold his private library. Most of it is preserved at the ancient archive of the Biblioteca Pública Central del Estado de Durango Lic. José Ignacio Gallegos Caballero. This paper reviews the ancient Spanish poetry books remaining in the Ramírez Collection so as to outline the literary tastes of a 19th century bibliophile from the North of Mexico. The author also aims to explain the reasons behind these books and their eventual links to the literary paradigms advocated by the Enlightenment at the expenses of 17th century poetics.