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  HISTORY
  OF
  SPANISH LITERATURE.

  VOL. III.




  HISTORY
  OF
  SPANISH LITERATURE.


  BY
  GEORGE TICKNOR.


  IN THREE VOLUMES.

  VOLUME III.


  NEW YORK:
  HARPER AND BROTHERS, 82 CLIFF STREET.
  M DCCC XLIX.




  Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by
  GEORGE TICKNOR,
  in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of
    Massachusetts.




  CONTENTS
  OF
  VOLUME THIRD.


  SECOND PERIOD.
  (CONTINUED.)

  CHAPTER XXXI.

  SATIRICAL POETRY, EPISTOLARY, ELEGIAC, PASTORAL, EPIGRAMMATIC,
  DIDACTIC, AND DESCRIPTIVE.

  Satirical Poetry                                3
  Mendoza, Boscan                                 3
  Castillejo, Montemayor                          4
  Padilla, Cantorál                               4
  Murillo, Artieda                                4
  Barahona de Soto                                4
  Juan de Jauregui                                4
  The Argensolas                                  5
  Quevedo, Góngora                                5
  Cervantes, Espinel                              6
  Arguijo, Rioja                                  6
  Salcedo, Ulloa, Melo                            6
  Rebolledo, Solís                                6
  Satire discouraged                              7
  Elegiac Poetry                                  8
  Garcilasso                                      8
  Figueroa, Silvestre                             9
  Cantorál, the Argensolas                        9
  Borja, Herrera                                  9
  Rioja, Quevedo                                  9
  Villegas                                        9
  Elegy does not succeed                          9
  Pastoral Poetry                                10
  Garcilasso, Boscan, Mendoza                    10
  Figueroa, Cantorál                             10
  Montemayor                                     10
  Saa de Miranda                                 10
  Polo, Balbuena                                 12
  Barahona de Soto                               12
  Padilla, Silvestre                             12
  Pedro de Enzinas                               12
  Morales, Tapia                                 13
  Balvas, Villegas                               13
  Carrillo, Esquilache                           13
  Quevedo, Espinosa                              13
  Soto de Roxas, Zarate                          13
  Ulloa, Los Reyes                               13
  Barrios, Inez de la Cruz                       13
  Pastorals successful                           14
  Epigrams, amatory                              14
  Maldonado, Silvestre                           15
  Villegas, Góngora                              15
  Camoens, Argensolas                            15
  Villegas, Quevedo                              15
  Esquilache                                     15
  Francisco de la Torre                          15
  Rebolledo                                      16
  Didactic Poetry                                17
  Earliest                                       17
  In the Cancioneros                             17
  Boscan, Silvestre, Mendoza                     17
  Guzman, Aldana, Rufo                           19
  Virues, Cantorál                               19
  Morillo, Salas                                 19
  Argensola, Artieda                             19
  Mesa, Espinel                                  19
  Juan de la Cueva                               20
  Pablo de Céspedes                              20
  Lope de Vega                                   22
  Rebolledo, Trapeza                             22
  Emblems                                        22
  Daza, Covarrubias                              22
  Descriptive Poetry                             23
  Dicastillo                                     23
  Didactic Poetry fails                          23


  CHAPTER XXXII.

  BALLAD POETRY.

  Effect of