Throughout his life, Garcilaso de la Vega wrote various poems in each of these types. His works include: forty "Sonetos" (Sonnets), five "Canciones" (Songs), eight "Coplas" (Couplets), three "Églogas" (Eclogues), two "Elegías" (Elegies), and the "Epístola a Boscán" (Letter to Boscán). Allusions to classical myths and Greco-Latin figures, great musicality, alliteration, rhythm and an absence of religion characterize his poetry. It can be said that Spanish poetry was never the same after Garcilaso de la Vega. His works have influenced the majority of subsequent Spanish poets, including other major authors of the period like Jorge de Montemor, Luis de León, John of the Cross, Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Luis de Góngora and Francisco Quevedo.