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)

1.5 Beginning of theatre as a literary genre: “The Gardener and Pretend Prince Cloridano”, by Santiago Pita, published between 1730 and 1733

1.4 Beginnings of choteo in literature: the work “Testament of D. Jacinto Josef Pita”, written by Rafael Velázquez after 1762

1.3 Sacred oratory, a boom experienced in the 18th century

1.2.1 The historiographical and poetic work of José Martín Félix de Arrate (1701 – 1765)