MANRIQUE, Jorge, Spanish poet: b. about 1440; d. 1479. He was son of Rodrigo Manrique, grand master of Santiago. He early took a prominent part in the troubles of the reign of Henry IV, taking sides with Don Alfonso. Notwithstanding the fact that most his life was passed in active military duty and that he died in battle in the attack on the fortress of Garci-Mufroz, he yet attained such an eminence as a poet that he is still classed among the great writers of Spain, and a worthy nephew of Gomez Manrique (q.v.) and heir of his father, Rodrigo Manrique, who was one of the successful troubadours at the court of John II, one of the foremost patrons of lyrical poetry. Jorge Manrique has written satires, love songs and poems of a like nature common to the age in which he lived; but his most noted poem and the one to which he owes his lasting fame is (C,oplas de Jorge Manrique por la muerte de su padri.> This is one of the finest
lyrics in the Spanish language, instinct with true poetic form and thought and sympathy. This poem has been imitated and praised by some of the greatest writers of Spain and it has found universal favor in the eyes of the critics. Longfellow has made a worthy transla tion of it into English; and it was set to music as far back as the 16th century by Venegas de Henestrosa. (See COPLAS DE MANRIQUE; ROMANCER() DPI. CID). Consult Longfellow's translation and Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James, History of Spanish Literature> (New York 1898); Menendez y Pelayo, Marcelino, tologia de poetas liricos castellanos> (Vol. VI, Madrid 1896); Biblioteca de autores esparioles (Rivadeneira, Vols. XXXII and XXXV) con tains his works and notices thereof.