Título de la obra:
Introduction to the Literature of Europe, in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth centuries,
vol. 3
The styles of Spanish poetry
The Spanish poetry of the
sixteenth
century might be arranged in three classes. In the first we might place that which was formed in the
ancient
school
though not always preserving its characteristics; the short trochaic metres, employed in the song or the
ballad,
altogether
national,
or aspiring to be such, either in their subjects or in their style. In the second would stand that to which the imitation of the Italians had given rise, the
school
of Boscan and Garcilasso; and with these we might place also the
epic
poems, which do not seem to be essentially different from
similar
productions of Italy. A third and not inconsiderable division, though less extensive than the others, is composed of the poetry of good sense; the didactic, semi-satirical,
Horatian
style, of which Mendoza was the founder, and several specimens of which occur in the
Parnaso Español
of Sedano.