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Lyric Poetry of Spain, at the close of the Sixteenth and com-

mencement of the Seventeenth Century.-Gongora and his

followers, Quevedo, Villegas, &c.

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Conclusion of the Spanish Drama.-State of Letters during the

reign of the house of Bourbon.-Conclusion of the History

of Spanish Literature

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