THE SPANISH LIRICA

The word "lyrical" defines everything concerning or belonging to the lira, or to the poetry for the singers. Their origins are greeks: it was that poetry that it was not intended to be read, but to be recited before an audience by an individual or by a chorus, accompanied by some music instrument, mainly from the lira. It is currently used the concept to define one of the three main genres poetic, which includes the compositions of subjective, and in general, all the works in verse that are not epics or dramatic.

The Lyric spanish arises toward the 9th century with a profound influence of Arab culture and with the happen from time is strengthened and reaches its splendor during the Golden Century. The lyrical poetry is characterized by the polimetría, musicality and because its main thematic are personal feelings of the individual, the poet: their ideas, their affections, their privacy.