18th and 19th Century Spanish Literature
18th Century Spanish Literature
Novel
- Padre Island (Story of the famous preacher Brother Campazas, gerund of dunces alias)
- Torres Villaroel (Birth, breeding and life ascencio aventurasndel Doctor Don Diego de Torres Villaroel / Mink towers visits Don Francisco de Quevedo by the court / The Acheron boat)
Poetry
- Literary Memoirs of Paris
- Poets of Madrid: Scaffold (Leisure of my youth / Mournful Nights)
- Salamanca School:
- Menéndez Valdés (The flower of Zurguén / Rosana in fires / The dove of syphilis)
- Jovellanos (Satires and epistles / Fabio epistle to Anfriso)
- Jose Quintana (Padilla, the invention of printing / Dela to Spain after March Revolution)
Theater
Neoclassical Tragedy
- Nicolás Fernández de Moratinos (Lucrecia, Hormesinda, Guzman el Bueno, The Fop)
- Vicente Garcia in the Garden (Rachel)
Neoclassical Comedy
- Leandro Fernández de Moratinos (The old and the girl child, If girls, The baron, The prudish, The new comedy, Coffee)
Traditional Theater
- Ramon de la Cruz (The chestnut chopped Prairie sna Isidro, The fandango of the lamp, Manolo, The muñuelo)
Romanesque Theater
- Jovellanos (The Offender Honored)
Fable
In the 18th century, there was a renewed interest in the fable and its moral teachings. Authors made use of animal fables to instruct people, often in verse, with a moral lesson.
- Felix María de Samaniego (Fables in Castilian Verse)
- Tomas Irirarte (Literary Fables)
19th Century Spanish Literature: Romanticism
Poetry
- Espronceda, Romantic Rebel Poet (Sancho Saldaña, The Pelayo, The Student of Salamanca, The Devil’s World)
- Bécquer (History of the Temples of Spain, Rhymes and Legends) – Talks about love, pain, and death.
- Jacinto Verdaguer (Ode to the Motherland, L’Atlantida and Canigo)
- Rosalía de Castro (Cantares Gallegos, On the Banks of River Sar)
- Romantic Narrative Poems:
- Salamanca Student (Espronceda)
- Romance Histórico (Duke of Rivas)
- Legends (Bécquer)
Drama
Features of Romantic Drama in Spain
- Between 3 and 5 acts
- Breaks space-time unit
- Mixes comic and tragic elements
- Uses both prose and verse
- Themes of love and freedom
- Time and space are not clearly defined
- The action focuses on the hero and heroine
- Love language marked by lyricism
- Dynamic and romantic action
Romantic Dramatists
- Martínez de la Rosa (Aben Humeya, Conjuración de Venecia)
- Larra (Macías, The Youth of Henry the Suffering)
- Duke of Rivas (Don Álvaro, or the Force of Destiny)
- Antonio García Gutiérrez (The Troubadour, Revenge Catalan, Juan Lorenzo)
- Hartzenbusch (Los Amantes de Teruel)
- José Zorrilla (The Shoemaker and the King, The Sword of the Goths, Sancho Garcia, Unacknowledged and Martyr Traitor, Don Juan Tenorio)