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Spanish literature generally refers to literature (Spanish poetry, prose, and drama) written in the Spanish language within the territory that presently constitutes the Kingdom of Spain. Its development coincides and frequently intersects with that of other literary traditions from regions within the same territory, particularly Catalan ...
The Spanish Renaissance. [edit] Classically, 1492 is spoken of as the beginning of the Renaissance in Spain; nevertheless it is complex to consider a date, due to the multiple circumstances that happened. The situation of Spain was always very complex but even so the humanism managed to maintain its innovating characteristics, in spite of the ...
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca[ a ] (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936), known as Federico García Lorca[ b ] (English: / ɡɑːrˌsiːəˈlɔːrkə / gar-SEE-ə LOR-kə), was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27, a ...
Spanish Baroque literature. Spanish Baroque literature is the literature written in Spain during the Baroque, which occurred during the 17th century in which prose writers such as Baltasar Gracián and Francisco de Quevedo, playwrights such as Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Calderón de la Barca and Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, or the poetic ...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (/ sɜːrˈvæntiːz, - tɪz / sur-VAN-teez, -tiz, [ 5 ]Spanish: [miˈɣel de θeɾˈβantes saaˈβeðɾa]; 29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616 NS) [ 6 ] was an Early Modern Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists.
The Spanish Golden Age (Spanish: Siglo de Oro Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsiɣlo ðe ˈoɾo], "Golden Century") was a period that coincided with the political rise of the Spanish Empire under the Catholic Monarchs of Spain and the Spanish Habsburgs. This era saw a flourishing of literature and the arts in Spain. The most significant patron of ...
Romanticism came to Spain through Andalusia and Catalonia.. In Andalucía, the Prussian consul in Cádiz, Juan Nicolás Böhl de Faber, father of novelist Fernán Caballero, published a series of articles between 1818 and 1819 in the Diario Mercantil (Mercantile Daily) of Cádiz, in which he defended Spanish theatre of the Siglo de Oro, and was widely attacked by the neo-Classicists.
Ricardo Baeza Durán (1890–1956) Rafael Balanzat y Baranda (1820–1854), writer and military man. Andrés Baquero (1853–1916), teacher, researcher, and writer. Bárbara de Santo Domingo (1842–1872), Catholic mystic writer. Elia Barceló (born 1957), writer. Juan Barcia Caballero (1852–1926), Spanish physician and writer.