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This form of poetry often resulted in severe punishments being administered to the poets. Neostoicism became a movement of philosophical poetry. Ideas from the medieval period resurfaced. Mythological themes were more common in culteranismo. Not until the Generation of 1927 did these poems gain more importance.
Spain is a poem by W. H. Auden written after his visit to the Spanish Civil War. [1] Spain was described by George Orwell as "one of the few decent things that have been written about the Spanish war". It was written and published in 1937. Auden donated all the profits from the sale of Spain to the Spanish Medical Aid Committee. [2]
Two Gentlemen of Verona by Angelica Kauffman (1789). The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1589 and 1593.It is considered by some to be Shakespeare's first play, [a] and is often seen as showing his first tentative steps in laying out some of the themes and motifs with which he would later deal in more detail; for example, it is ...
This is a list of notable poets who have written in the Spanish language This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Lyric poetry in the Middle Ages can be divided into three groups: the jarchas, the popular poems originating from folk-songs sung by commoners, and the courtly poetry of the nobles. Alfonso X of Castile fits into the third group with his series of three hundred poems, written in Galician: Las cantigas de Santa María.
In the example passage from Don Juan, canto I, stanza 1, lines 3–6, the Spanish name Juan is rhymed with the English sound for the words true one. Therefore Juan is spoken in English, as / ˈ dʒ uː ən / JOO-ən, which is the recurring pattern of enunciation used for pronouncing foreign names and words in the orthography of English. [7]
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (Spanish: [miˈɣ̞el ð̞e̞ u.naˈmu.no i ˈxu.ɣ̞o]; 29 September 1864 – 31 December 1936) was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, professor of Greek and Classics, and later rector at the University of Salamanca.
Luis de León was born in Belmonte, in the Province of Cuenca, in 1527 or 1528. [3] His parents were Lope de León and Inés de Varela, and they had five children. [4] His father practiced law, and it was due to his profession that the family moved to Madrid in 1534, and later to Valladolid.