ABSTRACT
In The Origins of the Romantic Movement in Spain (1937) Ivy McClelland refers as follows to the Correo de los ciegos, which,
primarily a reporter of general news, and only in a secondary degree literary, sustained throughout its course a sturdily independent attitude towards all topics. Its bi-weekly publications, because of their varied matter, reached a wider public than the monthly ones of the Memorial Literario, and in every respect it is more truly a journal of the people. Yet it is not be despised. […] It is a mine of information on the social and literary life of Madrid. Its pages were open to all shades of literary opinion, and its literary correspondents, if frequently of popular tastes and not given to academic preciseness, seldom passed unreasonable judgments or praised extravagances. Indeed, they had a knack, as good popular journalists often have, of hitting the mark exactly. 1
