Abstract
The first of these books contains the text of six lectures on the Libro de buen amor and La Celestina which the late Maria Rosa Lida de Malkiel gave at Illinois in 1959–60. The lectures began with a categorical declaration of Mrs Malkiel's adherence to the view that literary criticism can only aspire to a relative and provisional truth. This may surprise some, for the unambiguous way in which she often formulated her written conclusions—and her sometimes ruthless handling of critical opinions with which she disagreed— do not perhaps readily suggest her evident awareness that the critical truths she strove so pertinaciously to uncover might only possess provisional validity. It is manifest, however, from the eloquent memoir printed in RPh, XVII (1963), that a good deal of Mrs Malkiel's personality remained hidden from those who only knew her through her writings. This makes it all the sadder that she was unable, on account of her fatal illness, to carry out her intention to attend the 1962 International Co...
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