| Love and its attendant passions has been the | | | | |
| favorite subject of Spanish poetry since the | | | | Some of these well-known Spanish poets and |
| time of the troubadours, medieval poets who | | | | their popular poems are: |
| earned their keep by singing for the people | | | | |
| at the village square or for the nobility | | | | Carlos Alberto Garcia - Amor |
| during royal gatherings at the palace. | | | | |
| Composers in their own right, these court | | | | Que soy |
| poets sang about courtly love and the | | | | |
| bittersweet pain of unattained love for an | | | | Quisiera |
| idealized woman using the jarchas, a form of | | | | |
| love song that was actually poetry written in | | | | Yo te conozco |
| very short stanzas. | | | | |
| | | | Olvidarte |
| It is important in the study of Spanish love | | | | |
| poems to differentiate between poems that | | | | Nestor Oscar Morris - Quiero decirte algo |
| originated from countries outside of Spain | | | | |
| including Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, | | | | Pienso solo en ti |
| Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, | | | | |
| Peru, The Philippines, Puerto Rico, The | | | | Jorge E. Diaz Leyton - Tu |
| United States, Uruguay and Venezuela which | | | | |
| were written in Spanish but whose authors | | | | Manuel M. Mendez - Pertenencia |
| were not from Spain. All these poets and | | | | |
| their respective poems have contributed in | | | | Focusing attention on Spanish poets who trace |
| some way to the development of Spanish Poetry | | | | their origins to Spain, however; poets who |
| as a genre because they all wrote their work | | | | lived, loved and wrote their best work within |
| in Spanish albeit in the form of Spanish | | | | the Spanish Peninsula or the so-called |
| common to their country of origin. Although | | | | 'Poetas de España', we come up with a list |
| some of them wrote patriotic poems about | | | | of illustrious writers whose works |
| their motherland, most of them utilized | | | | contributed to the development of Spanish |
| images of love to depict the sorrow of a | | | | Literature as it is today. |
| country that has lost its freedom. | | | | |