Selected Works
Among his works are:
- L'Atlàntida (Atlantis, 1876)
- Idil·lis i cants místics (Idylls and Mystic Songs, 1879)
- Montserrat (1880, 1899)
- "A Barcelona" ("To Barcelona", 1883)
- Caritat (Charity, 1885)
- Canigó (1886)
- Sant Francesc (Saint Francis, 1895)
- Flors del Calvari (Flowers of Calvary, 1896)
The scenic cantata Atlàntida, composed by Manuel de Falla and completed after de Falla's death by Ernesto Halffter, is based on Verdaguer's L'Atlàntida. Manuel de Falla considered this large-scale orchestral piece to be the most important of all his works.
Some of his shorter poems are well known as songs in Catalonia, especially L'Emigrant ("Sweet Catalonia, country of my heart...").
Verdaguer's works are collected in English in Selected Poems of Jacint Verdaguer: A Bilingual Edition, edited and translated by Ronald Puppo, with an introduction by Ramon Pinyol i Torrents, University of Chicago Press, 2007.
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