ABSTRACT
The vast number of poets who flourished in Spain at this epoch renders the task of furnishing the biography of even a selection from among them, hopeless. When we turn to the “Laurel de Apolo” of Lope de Vega, and see stanza after stanza devoted to different poets; and when, in the “Voyage to Parnassus” of Cervantes we find poets rain in showers, we give up the task as hopeless – especially when we are told that, although many of those so brought forward are unknown, many there are, who wrote well, who are not mentioned at all in these works.a
