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| Dedication | [iii] |
| Introduction. On the character of Spanish Poetry, Ancient and Modern.—Causes affecting it suggested from considerations of Roman civilization, Moorish wars, and personal history of the principal Poets.—Works on Spanish literature: Remarks on translation and language.—References to other modern Poets.—Spanish metres and versification | [vii] |
| Preliminary Note. On the pronunciation of Spanish names and words | [xxxiii] |
| [PART I.] |
| [I. GASPAR MELCHOR DE JOVELLANOS.] |
| Memoir of | [3] |
| Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studies of Men | [18] |
| To Galatea’s Bird | [30] |
| To Enarda.—I. | [32] |
| To Enarda.—II. | [33] |
| [II. TOMAS DE IRIARTE.] |
| Memoir of | [37] |
| Epistle to Don Domingo de Iriarte, on his Travelling to various Foreign Courts | [46] |
| The Bear, the Monkey and the Hog | [53] |
| The Ass and the Flute | [55] |
| The Two Rabbits | [56] |
| The Lamb and his Two Advisers | [58] |
| The Flint and the Steel | [59] |
| [III. JUAN MELENDEZ VALDES.] |
| Memoir of | [61] |
| Juvenilities | [77] |
| The Timid Lover | [79] |
| My Village Life | [81] |
| Remembrances of Youth | [84] |
| Of the Sciences | [87] |
| The Disdainful Shepherdess | [90] |
| [IV. LEANDRO FERNANDEZ MORATIN.] |
| Memoir of | [95] |
| Dedication of the Mogigata to the Prince of the Peace | [106] |
| Epistle to Don Gaspar de Jovellanos, sent from Rome | [108] |
| [V. JUAN BAUTISTA DE ARRIAZA.] |
| Memoir of | [113] |
| Tempest and War, or the Battle of Trafalgar | [123] |
| The Parting | [132] |
| [VI. MANUEL JOSÈ QUINTANA.] |
| Memoir of | [141] |
| To the Spanish Expedition for the Promotion of Vaccination in America, under Don Francisco Balmis | [152] |
| On the Battle of Trafalgar | [158] |
| [PART II.] |
| [VII. FRANCISCO MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA.] |
| Memoir of | [169] |
| Remembrance of Spain, written in London in 1811 | [183] |
| Return to Granada, October 27, 1831 | [185] |
| Epistle to the Duque de Frias, on the Death of the Duquesa | [190] |
| Anacreontic | [199] |
| Bacchanalian | [200] |
| [VIII. ANGEL DE SAAVEDRA, DUKE DE RIVAS.] |
| Memoir of | [203] |
| The Alcazar of Seville | [224] |
| [IX. MANUEL BRETON DE LOS HERREROS.] |
| Memoir of | [249] |
| Satirical Letrillias.—III. | [258] |
| Satirical Letrillias.—IV. | [260] |
| Satirical Letrillias.—VII. | [262] |
| [X. JOSÈ MARIA HEREDIA.] |
| Memoir of | [265] |
| Sonnet. Dedication of the Second Edition of his Poems, to his Wife | [275] |
| To his Horse | [276] |
| The Season of the Northers | [277] |
| Poesy, an Ode | [280] |
| Ode to Night | [285] |
| [XI. JOSÈ DE ESPRONCEDA.] |
| Memoir of | [291] |
| To Spain, an Elegy. London, 1829 | [305] |
| The Condemned to Die | [308] |
| The Song of the Pirate | [314] |
| To Harifa, in an Orgy | [318] |
| [XII. JOSÈ ZORRILLA.] |
| Memoir of | [323] |
| The Christian Lady and the Moor | [336] |
| Romance, The Waking | [339] |
| Oriental Romance, Boabdil | [343] |
| The Captive | [345] |
| The Tower of Munion | [347] |
| The Warning | [350] |
| Meditation | [352] |
| [NOTES] | [357] |