El Garcilasismo[1] (also known as Juventud Creadora or Creative Youth) is one of the main themes of Spanish post-civil-war poetry whose followers met in Café Gijón, Madrid.
They formed part of a wider group of academics and artists known as "Generation of 36" who were working about the time Civil war broke out.
Leading Garcilasistas included: The Garcilasismo poetry style broke with traditional metrics, giving predominance to the sonnet, which constructed and resolved harmoniously, in contrast to the harrowing reality of Spain after the Civil War.
These authors, as the name of their hero may suggest, tried to provide a representation of an idealized poet soldier, eager for love and beauty very different from the reality of the violence and hatreds of the actual warfare then raging.
The themes of the Garcilasistas are those of lyrical poetry: love, death, God, the Castilian landscape, their homeland and nation.