Spanish Poetry Since 1400

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Spanish Poetry Since 1400 (Critical Survey of Poetry)

Introduction

During the fifteenth century, Spain’s mercurial transformation into a world power was the direct result of having achieved national unification (1492)—a reality that took more than seven centuries of armed conflict between the various Christian principalities scattered throughout the northern half of the Iberian Peninsula and the powerful Moslem caliphates that dominated virtually all of Spain for several centuries following the Moors’ initial invasion in 711. As Spain found herself emerging into a modern state whose strong central government was busy...

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