Learnèd cancionero poetry of the period before Garcilaso seems a bit sterile to modern taste (my own at least). But the popular songs (folk songs) that sometimes appear in the musical cancioneros is wonderfully vibrant. At the time, the aristocratic poetry would have seemed superior to the vulgarity of the peasant poetry. Now, the terms are reversed. It's almost as though we could pick out the popular songs simply because they are better in certain specific ways.
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