BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 SPANISH LITERATURE -- CASTILIAN LITERATURE THROUGH THE 18TH CENTURY -- THE ORIGINS OF VERNACULAR WRITING -- THE RISE OF HEROIC POETRY -- THE BEGINNINGS OF PROSE -- THE 14TH CENTURY -- THE 15TH CENTURY -- THE RENAISSANCE AND THE SIGLO DE ORO -- CASTILIAN RENAISSANCE POETRY -- EARLY DRAMA -- HISTORICAL WRITING -- THE NOVEL -- MYSTICAL WRITINGS -- LATER DRAMA -- CULTERANISMO AND CONCEPTISMO -- THE PLAYS OF CALDERÓN -- THE 18TH CENTURY -- NEW CRITICAL APPROACHES -- WOMEN WRITERS -- CHAPTER 2 CASTILIAN LITERATURE IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES -- THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT -- REVIVAL OF THE SPANISH NOVEL -- POST-ROMANTIC DRAMA AND POETRY -- THE MODERN PERIOD: NOVELS AND ESSAYS -- POETRY -- DRAMA -- THE GENERATION OF 1927 -- WOMEN POETS -- REFORM OF THE DRAMA -- THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR AND BEYOND -- CHAPTER 3 CATALAN AND GALICIAN LITERATURE -- MEDIEVAL PERIOD -- DECLINE: 16TH-18TH CENTURY -- THE RENAIXENÇA -- MODERNISME AND NOUCENTISME -- AFTER 1950 -- GALICIAN LITERATURE -- CHAPTER 4 MAJOR SPANISH WRITERS -- LEOPOLDO ALAS -- AZORÍN -- ANTONIO BUERO VALLEJO -- CAMILO JOSÉ CELA -- MIGUEL DE CERVANTES -- SOLDIER AND SLAVE -- CIVIL SERVANT AND WRITER -- PUBLICATION OF DON QUIXOTE -- DON QUIXOTE AND CRITICAL TRADITIONS -- IMPORTANCE AND INFLUENCE -- ALONSO DE ERCILLA Y ZÚÑIGA -- FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA -- EARLY YEARS -- EARLY POETRY AND PLAYS -- ROMANCERO GITANO -- LATER POETRY AND PLAYS -- GARCILASO DE LA VEGA -- LUIS DE GÓNGORA Y ARGOTE -- JUAN RAMÓN JIMÉNEZ -- BARTOLOMÉ DE LAS CASAS -- BENITO PÉREZ GALDÓS -- JUAN RUIZ -- TIRSO DE MOLINA -- MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO -- LOPE DE VEGA -- LIFE -- HEIGHT OF LITERARY PRODUCTIVITY -- WORKS -- CHAPTER 5 LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE -- THE COLONIAL PERIOD -- THE EARLIEST LITERARY ACTIVITY -- CHRONICLES OF DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST -- HISTORIANS OF THE NEW WORLD.

THE BARROCO DE INDIAS -- THE 18TH CENTURY -- HISTORIOGRAPHIES -- PLAYS -- POETRY -- EARLY NOVELS -- ROMANTICISM -- MODERNISMO -- THE VANGUARDIA -- THE MODERN NOVEL -- "POST-BOOM" WRITERS -- THE MODERN ESSAY -- CHAPTER 6 MAJOR LATIN AMERICAN WRITERS -- ISABEL ALLENDE -- RAMÓN AMAYA AMADOR -- REINALDO ARENAS -- MIGUEL ÁNGEL ASTURIAS -- ANDRÉS BELLO -- ANTONIO BENÍTEZ ROJO -- ADOLFO BIOY CASARES -- JORGE LUIS BORGES -- LIFE -- ASSESSMENT -- JUAN BOSCH -- ERNESTO CARDENAL -- ALEJO CARPENTIER -- JULIO CORTÁZAR -- RUBÉN DARÍO -- LIFE AND WORK -- ASSESSMENT -- CARLOS FUENTES -- GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ -- LIFE -- WORKS -- ASSESSMENT -- NICOLÁS GUILLÉN -- JUANA DE IBARBOUROU -- JORGE ICAZA -- JOSÉ LEZAMA LIMA -- LEOPOLDO LUGONES -- JOSÉ JULIÁN MARTÍ -- PEDRO MIR -- ÁLVARO MUTIS -- PABLO NERUDA -- EARLY LIFE AND LOVE POETRY -- THE EXPERIMENTAL POET AS DIPLOMAT -- COMMUNISM AND POETRY -- LATER YEARS -- ASSESSMENT -- HEBERTO PADILLA -- OCTAVIO PAZ -- CRISTINA PERI ROSSI -- MANUEL PUIG -- HORACIO QUIROGA -- JOSÉ ENRIQUE RODÓ -- ERNESTO SÁBATO -- SEVERO SARDUY -- DOMINGO FAUSTINO SARMIENTO -- CÉSAR VALLEJO -- MARIO VARGAS LLOSA -- EPILOGUE -- NEW DIRECTIONS -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLOGRAPHY -- SPANISH LITERATURE -- CASTILIAN LITERATURE -- CATALAN AND GALICIAN LITERATURE -- LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE -- GENERAL HISTORIES AND REFERENCE WORKS -- ANTHOLOGIES -- THE COLONIAL PERIOD -- THE 18TH CENTURY -- ROMANTICISM TO MODERNISMO -- POETRY FROM THE VANGUARDIAS TO THE PRESENT -- THE MODERN NOVEL -- THE MODERN ESSAY -- INDEX -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- BACK COVER.