Spanish lit

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>>9638248
St. John of the Cross

Now therefore return and go in peace.

I was raised speaking Spanish but learned English when i was 8 and haven't returned to the language since, i can still speak it well enough though. How do i get back into reading Spanish?

>>9638248

Neruda is great and so is >>9638308 John of the Cross
I would recommend Canto General if you want something closer to epic poetry, it is about Latin American history (mainly of the Andes and Chile). It is pretty communist, but since communism is almost like a religion, it can be a source of inspiration.

Spanish poetry of the renaissance is easier to read than Spanish poetry of the baroque (Quevedo and Góngora), even if it's older. San Juan de la Cruz, Fray Luis de Leon, and Garcilaso de la Vega (who was pretty much an italian poet in Spanish) were the great ones.

Rubén Darío from the late XIX century and early XXth century was the first great poet in Spanish in more than a century, and Borges was a quite competent Poet, I would simply get his anthology.