• dramatic literature

  / Into the 16th and 17th centuries
• bullfighting

  / Bullfighting and the arts
• Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Villegas
• nonfictional prose

  / Uses of the essay
• nonfictional prose

  / Dialogues
• prosody

  / Syllabic metres
• romance

  / Later developments
• short story

  / Spreading popularity
• Spain

  / Castilian institutions, society, and culture
• Spain

  / Literature
• Spain

  / Spain’s Golden Age in literature

Castilian

Works that provide a broad overview of Spanish literature are Gerald Brenan, The Literature of the Spanish People: From Roman Times to the Present, 2nd ed. (1953, reprinted 1976); Richard E. Chandler and Kessel Schwartz, A New History of Spanish Literature, rev. ed. (1991); R.O. Jones (ed.), A Literary History of Spain, 8 vol. (1971–73); Janet Pérez and Maureen Ihrie (eds.), The Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature, 2 vol. (2002); Germán Bleiberg, Maureen Ihrie, and Janet Pérez (eds.), Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula, 2 vol. (1993); Philip Ward (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature (1978); Harriet Turner and Adelaida López de Martínez (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel (2003); and David Gies (ed.), The Cambridge History of Spanish Literature (2004).

Works that focus on specific periods or trends in Spanish literary history include Otis H. Green, The Literary Mind of Medieval and Renaissance Spain (1970), a collection of essays by an eminent scholar; A.D. Deyermond, The Middle Ages (1971), a very good introduction, with bibliography; Otis H. Green, Spain and the Western Tradition: The Castilian Mind in Literature from El Cid to Calderón, 4 vol. (1963–66), readable and authoritative; Margaret D. Jacobson, The Origins of Spanish Romanticism: A Selective Annotated Bibliography (1985); R.O. Jones, The Golden Age: Prose and Poetry: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1971), an excellent introduction; Edward M. Wilson and Duncan Moir, The Golden Age: Drama (1971); John A. Cook, Neo-Classic Drama in Spain: Theory and Practice (1959, reprinted 1974); Nigel Glendinning, The Eighteenth Century (1972); R. Merritt Cox, Eighteenth-Century Spanish Literature (1979); Donald L. Shaw, The Nineteenth Century (1972); E. Allison Peers, A History of the Romantic Movement in Spain, 2 vol. (1940, reprinted 1976), a comprehensive account; L.B. Walton, Pérez Galdós and the Spanish Novel of the Nineteenth Century (1927, reprinted 1970), dated but still useful; Lou Charnon-Deutsch and Jo Labanyi (eds.), Culture and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Spain (1995); Catherine Davies, Spanish Women’s Writing, 1849–1996 (1998); Carl W. Cobb, Contemporary Spanish Poetry (1898–1963) (1976); Ricardo Landeira, The Modern Spanish Novel, 1898–1936 (1985); Margaret E.W. Jones, The Contemporary Spanish Novel, 1939–1975 (1985); Paul Ilie, The Surrealist Mode in Spanish Literature: An Interpretation of Basic Trends from Post-Romanticism to the Spanish Vanguard (1968), the first examination of Spanish Surrealism, and Literature and Inner Exile: Authoritarian Spain, 1939–1975 (1980); Santiago Daydi-Tolson, The Post-Civil War Spanish Social Poets (1983); Marion P. Holt, The Contemporary Spanish Theater (1949–1972) (1975); G.G. Brown, A Literary History of Spain, vol. 6: The Twentieth Century (1972), one of the most thorough surveys in English; Janet Pérez, Contemporary Women Writers of Spain (1988), and Modern and Contemporary Spanish Women Poets (1996).

Catalan

Joan Arús, Evolució de la poesia catalana (1922); Octavi Saltor, Les idees literàries en la renaixença catalana (1934); Martín De Riquer, Resumen de literatura catalana (1947), and Los Trovadores, 3 vol. (1975, reissued 1983; originally published as La lírica de los trovadores, 1948), an anthology with notes; Joan Ruiz I Calonja, Història de la literatura catalana (1954); Joan Triadú (comp.), Anthology of Catalan Lyric Poetry, ed. by Joan Gili (1953, reprinted 1976); and Arthur Terry, Catalan Literature (1972).

Galician

Alvaro De Las Casas (comp.), Antología de la lírica gallega (1928); Rosalía De Castro, Poems, trans. by Charles David Ley (1964); P. José Mouriño, La literatura medioeval en Galicia (1929); and Benito Varela Jácome, História de la literatura gallega (1951).