Excerpt from Ancient Poetry and Romances of SpainI had sketched a 'short history of thepopular poetry of Spain, and had endeavoured to trace the changes which extraordinary political vicissitudes had produced upon the literature of that interesting country, but, to confess the truth, the more I read, and the more I thought on the subject, the less was I, satisfied, with the information obtained, or with the deductions I was disposed to draw. I choose rather to own that I was groping about in the twi light, than to make a, parade of the few memorials which I have been able to gather together out of the ruins - the splendid ruins - of other days.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.