Spanish Love: Spanish Poets and Their Spanish Poems

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