Spanish Love: Spanish Poets and Their Spanish Poems

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