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/sɛɹˈvɑntɛs/
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NOUN
- Spanish writer best remembered for `Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
How To Use Cervantes In A Sentence
- Sterne acknowledged his borrowings from writers such as Cervantes and Montaigne, but was curiously silent about his many thefts from Burton.
- Quixote, Don, eponymous hero of the great novel by Cervantes.
- That the singer, Cervantes' Don Quixote, is certainly delusional, possibly mad, doesn't vitiate the song's potency.
- Here the poet called up into pictorial presence, and informed with life, grace, beauty, infinite friendly mirth and wondrous naturalness of expression, the people of whom his dear books told him the stories, — his Shakspeare, his Cervantes, his Moliere, his Le Sage. Roundabout Papers
- Julieta Cervantes Alexandra Deshorties in the title role of Cherubini's 'Medea.' Zambello's First Season: Invigorated, Imbalanced
- For years many predicted Vargas Llosa would add the Nobel to his Cervantes prize but the man himself said his liberalism - which he defined as defending democracy and the free market The Guardian World News
- In the later “Gespräch über die Poesie” (1800), however, the term assumed again its concrete historical meaning: Shakespeare is characterized as laying the foundation of romantic drama and the romantic is found also in Cervantes, in Italian poetry, “in the age of chivalry, love, and fairy tales, whence the thing and the word are de - rived.” ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE
- He was born early in the sixteenth century in Seville, where, according to Cervantes, he worked as a metal-beater.
- Next day, I was apoplectic with rage when I saw that some moronic sub-editor had changed the reference to myself as feeling like Sancho Panza accompanying Don Quixote of Cervantes fame.
- If the works quoted in Don Quixote are any measure, it took masters like Cervantes and Ariosto to prove that this genre wasn't completely unredeemable.