Word: fecund
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...among the Romance nations. Arab civilization had little influence on the type of Spanish civilization; though its proximity undoubtedly increased the body of intellectual materials available for the latter. The reconquest was slow. Under these conditions art was slow to start. Hence Spain was not one of the poetically fecund nations of the Middle Ages. The earliest literature we have in the vulgar Spanish tongue belongs to the end of the 12th century, - a century later than the earliest French literature of moment. In the very earliest monument of Spanish, poetry that has come down to us, the Poem...