ABSTRACT
The clash between the two opposite schools was less sharp in the field of lyric poetry than in drama. It even seems that French influence was second to that of Italy. Jose Cadalso or Cadahalso, killed at the siege of Gibraltar, where he was serving as colonel, was an active member of the tertulia in the fonda de San Sebastian and one of the first poets of the Salamancan group, which he helped to found. Jose Cadalso or Cadahalso, killed at the siege of Gibraltar, where he was serving as colonel, was an active member of the tertulia in the fonda de San Sebastian and one of the first poets of the Salamancan group, which he helped to found. Jose Iglesias de la Casa, priest of a village near Salamanca, belongs to the same group. He began with epigrams and fugitive verse which is not without delicacy and spirit.
