Spanish poetry

The Medieval period covers 400 years of different poetry texts and can be broken up into five categories.

Since the findings of the Kharjas, which are mainly two, three, or four verses, Spanish lyrics, which are written in Mozarabic dialect, are perhaps the oldest of Romance Europe.

The Mozarabic dialect has Latin origins with a combination of Arabic and Hebrew fonts.

Works during the 13th century include religious, epics, historical, advice or knowledge, and adventure themes.

Some works vary and are not necessarily mester de clerecía, but are reflective of it.

Hagiographic poems include Life of St. María Egipciaca and Book of the Three Wise Men.

Cut offs, archaic speech, and recurrent dialogue are common characteristics among these poems; however the type and focus were diverse.

[8] During the Renaissance, poetry became partitioned into culteranismo and conceptismo, which essentially became rivals.

Minute elements of nature, such as bugs and pebbles, were considered divine.

French and German inspiration along with Modernism greatly improved the culture of Spain with the works of the Generation of 1898, which were mostly novelists but some were poets.

Poets during the World War II and under General Franco in peacetime: These works became experimental, using themes, styles and characteristics of traditional poetry throughout Spain’s time and combining them with current movements.