Abstract
The poetic genius of fifteenth-century Spain seems to have been confined largely to the romances. A personal study of the two principal collections of the century, the Cancionero de Baena and the Cancionero General of Hernando del Castillo has convinced me, and should convince anyone, that they contain very few poems which can be classified as genuine, original expressions of love. The Cancionero de Baena is almost entirely dominated by recuestas, or polemics between the various poets. Unbelievable as it may seem, there are less than a half-dozen love poems in the entire collection. The Cancionero General contains many love poems, but only in quantity is there any improvement over the earlier collection.
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