2.1.6 Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés (Plácido), poet and alleged conspirator, foundling since 1809

2.1.5.1 “The Exile’s Lute” published in 1858, the poets included in the sample

2.1.5 The precursor of romanticism in Spanish, José María Heredia (1803 – 1839)

2.1.4 Ignacio Valdés Machuca (1792 – 1851), his contributions to Cuban poetry

2.1.3 The poetry of Manuel María Pérez y Ramírez (1772 – 1851)

2.1.2 The poetic work of Manuel Justo de Rubalcava (1769 – 1805)

2.1.1 The poetic work of Manuel de Zequeira (Havana, 1764 – 1846)

2.1 Poetry and its main practitioners in the period 1790 – 1868

2 Literature in the colonial period (1790 – 1868)