page_title: Spanish literature
hierarchical_section_title: Spanish literature
caption_attribution_description: Español: Portada de la primera edición de la primera parte de El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, libro de Miguel de Cervantes. Publicado en Madrid, en 1605, en la imprenta de Juan de la Cuesta. Texto: EL INGENIOSO HIDALGO DON QVIXOTE DE LA MANCHA, Compueſto por Miguel de Ceruantes Saauedra DIRIGIDO AL DVQVE DE BEIAR, Marques de Gibraleon, Conde de Benalcaçar, y Bañares, Vizconde de la Puebla de Alcozer, Señor de las villas de Capilla, Curiel, y Burguillos. Año, 1605. CON PRIVILEGIO, EN MADRID, Por Iuan de la Cueſta. Vendeſe en caſa de Franciſco de Robles, librero del Rey nr̃o. ſeñor. Iconografía: El escudo del impresor muestra un halcón de cetrería, un león dormido y la divisa «Post tenebras spero lucem» (Espero la luz después de las tinieblas). &#91;1&#93;
context_page_description: Spanish literature generally refers to literature written in the Spanish language within the territory that presently constitutes the Kingdom of Spain. Its development coincides and frequently intersects with that of other literary traditions from regions within the same territory, particularly Catalan literature, Galician intersects as well with Latin, Jewish, and Arabic literary traditions of the Iberian peninsula. The literature of Spanish America is an important branch of Spanish literature, with its own particular characteristics dating back to the earliest years of Spain’s conquest of the Americas.
context_section_description: Spanish literature generally refers to literature (Spanish poetry, prose, and drama) written in the Spanish language within the territory that presently constitutes the Kingdom of Spain. Its development coincides and frequently intersects with that of other literary traditions from regions within the same territory, particularly Catalan literature, Galician intersects as well with Latin, Jewish, and Arabic literary traditions of the Iberian peninsula. The literature of Spanish America is an important branch of Spanish literature, with its own particular characteristics dating back to the earliest years of Spain’s conquest of the Americas (see Latin American literature).
caption: Cervantes's Don Quixote is considered the most emblematic work in the canon of Spanish literature and a founding classic of Western literature.
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