Spanish poetry is the poetic tradition of Spain. It may include elements of Spanish literature, and literatures written in languages of Spain other than Castillian, such as Catalan literature.

See also: Spanish American poetry .

Arabic & Hebrew poetry during the Moorish occupation

• Gil Vincente
• Christobal de Castillejo
• Luis de Gongora y Argote
• Lope de Vega Carpio
• Tirso de Molina

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After 1492

The Burning of the Library of Grenada, in 1499 or 1500, by the Archbishop of Granada , Cisneros , to destroy its homoerotic poetry.

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1898 until 1926

The Generation of 1898, mostly novelists but some poets.

• Antonio Machado
• Ultraism

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1927 until 1936

The Generation of 1927, mostly poets. Many were also involved with the production of music and theatre.

• Federico Garcia Lorca
• Vicente Aleixandre
• Pedro Celinas or Pedro Salinas
• Jorge Guillen
• Rafael Alberti
• Manuel de Falla; influential on poets, for his vision of Moorish Spain.
• Juan Ramon Jimenez
• Luis Cernuda

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1939 until 1975

Poets during the Spanish Civil War, the World War II and under General Franco in peacetime.

• Luis Bunuel
• Lluis Llach
• Jaime Gil de Biedma

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1975 until today

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See also

• List of Spanish language poets
• Arabic poetry
• List of Catalan language poets

Further reading

• D. Gareth Walters. The Cambridge Introduction to Spanish Poetry: Spain & Spanish America. (2002).

• Linda Fish Compton. Andalusian Lyric poetry and Old Spanish Love Songs (1976) (includes translations of some of the medieval anthology of love poems, compiled by Ibn Sana al-Mulk , the Dar al-tiraz).

• Emilio Garcia Gomez. (Ed.) In Praise of Boys: Moorish Poems from Al-Andalus (1975).

• Paul Halsall has a bibliography online, listing journal articles in English on medieval poetry in Spain.