What is Spanish literature?
[[Image:Cantar de mio Cid f. 1r (rep).jpg|197px|right|thumb|The [[Cantar de Mio Cid]] is the oldest preserved [[Spanish language|Spanish]] ''[[cantar de gesta]]'']] [[Image:Celestina.jpg|197px|right|thumb|upright|[[La Celestina]] by [[Fernando de Rojas]]]] [[Image:Miguel de Cervantes (1605) El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha.png|right|thumb|197px|[[Miguel de Cervantes|Cervantes]]'s [[Don Quixote]] is considered the most important work of world and Spanish literature and a founding classic of Western literature.]] [[File:El duque de Rivas (Federico de Madrazo).JPG|197px|thumb|right|[[Ángel de Saavedra]]]] [[Image:Perez galdos.jpg|197px|upright|thumb|''[[Portrait of Benito Pérez Galdós]]'', by [[Joaquín Sorolla]]]] [[Image:JRJimenez.JPG|197px|thumb|upright|[[Juan Ramón Jiménez]]]] '''Spanish literature''' is the literature ([[Spanish poetry]], [[prose]], and drama) written in the [[Spanish language]] in what today is the Kingdom of [[Spain]]. It developed at the same time as other literary traditions from areas in the same territory, particularly Catalan and Galician literature and also with Latin, Jewish, and Arabic literary traditions of the [[Iberian peninsula]]. The literature of [[Spanish America]] is an important branch of Spanish literature (see [[Latin American literature]]). ==Outline== * Middle Ages ** Epics: *** [[The Lay of the Cid]] *** [[Poema de Fernán González]] *** [[Mocedades de Rodrigo]] ** [[Alfonso X]] ** [[Juan Ruiz]] (''Libro de buen amor'') ** [[Gonzalo de Berceo]] (''Milagros de Nuestra Señora'') ** [[Jorge Manrique]] (''Coplas a la muerte de su padre'') * Renaissance and Baroque ([[Spanish Golden Age|Siglo de oro]]) ** The classical prose *** Anonymous (''[[Lazarillo de Tormes]]'') *** [[Fernando de Rojas]] (''[[La Celestina]]'') *** [[Alonso de Ercilla]] (''[[La Araucana]]'') *** [[Bernal Díaz del Castillo]] (''Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España'') *** [[Bernardino de Sahagún]] (''Historia General de las cosas de la Nueva España'') *** [[Mateo Alemán]] (''G