CHAPTER XI
An almost complete record of eighteenth-century literature is supplied by Sr. D. Leopoldo Augusto de Cueto, Marqués de Valmar, in his Histórica Crítica de la poesía castellana en el siglo XVIII. (1893), a revised and augmented edition of the classic preface to Rivadeneyra, vols. lxi., lxiii., and lxvii. D. Emilio Cotarelo y Mori's invaluable Iriarte y su época (1897) sheds much light on the literary history of the period, and D. Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo's Historia de las Ideas estéticas en España (vol. iii. part ii., 1886) should be read as a complement to all other works. Antonio María Alcalá Galiano's Historia de la literatura española, francesa, inglesa, é italiano en el siglo XVIII. (1845) is acute, but somewhat obsolete. I should recommend as an honest, useful monograph the life of Sarmiento published under the title of El Gran Gallego (La Coruña, 1895) by D. Antolín López Peláez.