The Romantic Dogs (Los perros románticos in Spanish) is a collection of poems by the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño.

These 43 poems span nearly twenty years, from 1980 to 1998, embracing a wide variety of topics.

According to Charles Bainbridge, writing for The Guardian: "The collection is dominated by a series of sustained reminiscences, fuelled by rage and a sense of cornered idealism [...] at key moments the writing pitches a kind of visionary anger.

Bolaño seems most at home when describing the sparse Mexican towns near the border with the US [...] and much of the best writing evokes characters, such as "The Worm" or "Lupe", who inhabit this violent world.

But the book ends on a very different note with two sudden love poems – lyrical, even gentle – that celebrate the possibility of a kind of salvation"[2] Sarah Kerr, writing for The New York Review of Books, found the poems to be "wonderfully unreserved"[3] while Boyd Tonkin of The Independent stated that Bolaño "can sound like a Whitman-esque visionary, as in 'The Last Savage', or erotically star-struck, as with 'La Francesa' and her love 'brief as the sigh of a guillotined head', or lyrically touching, recalling teenage hooker 'Lupe' and her lost baby.