Seis suspiros en la literatura clásica española

The article analyses six strategic «sighs» selected from major poetic and narrative texts of the Spanish classical literature (the Cid, the Romancero, the Abencerraje, Garcilaso, Don Qixote, the Persiles). Attending textual and contextual factors, strictly literary and broadly cultural, the analyse of those six sighs shows their relevance in the works in which they appear, and their implications at various levels, ultimately demonstrating the talent of the writers who created them