Romanticism in Spanish literature with works like "A la vejez viruelas" ("To the ancient smallpox"), "Muérete y verás" ("Die and you will see") and "El pelo de la dehesa" ("The hair of the grove"). He satirized Romanticism, though some of its characteristics appear in his comedies, as in "Muérete y verás". During the second half of the nineteenth century, the movement's pre-existing interests in history and legend entered a new stage, and poetry became more sentimental and intimate. This change was due to the influence of German poetry and a renewed popular interest in Spanish poetry. The Postromantic school departed significantly from its other
Black Legend of the Spanish Inquisition Black Legend of the Spanish Inquisition The Black Legend of the Spanish Inquisition is the hypothesis of the existence of a series of myths and fabrications about the Spanish Inquisition used as propaganda against the Spanish Empire in a time of strong military, commercial and political rivalry between European powers, starting in the 16th century. The propaganda depicts the inquisition as the epitome of human barbarity with fantastic scenes of tortures, witch hunting and evil friars. As such, it is a part of the Spanish Black Legend propaganda, as well as of Anti-Catholic propaganda, and one of its most recurrent