Spanish poetry
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Spanish poetry is the poetic tradition of Spain. It may include elements of Spanish literature, and literatures written in languages of Spain other than Castilian, such as Catalan literature.
See also: Spanish American poetry.
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Arabic & Hebrew poetry during the Moorish occupation
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After 1492
The Burning of the Library of Grenada, in 1499 or 1500, by the Archbishop of Granada, Cisneros, to destroy its homoerotic poetry.
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1898 until 1926
The Generation of 1898, mostly novelists but some poets.
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1927 until 1936
The Generation of 1927, mostly poets. Many were also involved with the production of music and theatre.
- Federico García Lorca
- Vicente Aleixandre
- Pedro Salinas
- Jorge Guillen
- Rafael Alberti
- Manuel de Falla; influential on poets, for his vision of Moorish Spain.
- Juan Ramon Jimenez
- Luis Cernuda
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1939 until 1975
Poets during the Spanish Civil War, the World War II and under General Franco in peacetime.
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1975 until today
Post-Franco and Contemporary Spanish Poets.
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See also
Further reading
- D. Gareth Walters. The Cambridge Introduction to Spanish Poetry: Spain & Spanish America. (2002).
- Linda Fish Compton. Andalusian Lyric poetry and Old Spanish Love Songs (1976) (includes translations of some of the medieval anthology of love poems, compiled by Ibn Sana al-Mulk, the Dar al-tiraz).
- Emilio Garcia Gomez. (Ed.) In Praise of Boys: Moorish Poems from Al-Andalus (1975).
- Paul Halsall has a bibliography online, listing journal articles in English on medieval poetry in Spain.